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Legal fictions.

Title
Legal fictions.
Publication
London : Lawrence & Wishart, 1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Ledger, Sally.
  • Swain, Stella.
Description
186 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
New formations ; no. 32
Uniform Title
New formations ; no. 32.
Subject
  • Law in literature
  • Law and literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Cover title.
  • "Guest editors, Sally Ledger and Stella Swain" -- p. 4 of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Infanticide and the nation: the case of Caroline Beale -- Aliens, anarchists and detectives: legislating the immigrant body -- Language, ethics and imagination: narratives of the (m)other in law and literature -- writing constitutions -- Transcripts: law, literature, and the trials of the voice -- Narrative and legality in Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- Witnesses and truth: juridical narratives and dialogism in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and The Moonstone -- Oscar Wilde: before the law -- Degenerescent lections: legal fictions in Rushdie, Derrida and Bhabha --Rehearsing the witch trials: gender injustice in The Crucible -- The lesbian outlaw -- 'In the exigency of his longing': Freud's discovery of law and fiction in Totem and Taboo -- The concept of sleaze.
ISBN
  • 085315838x
  • 0853158479
OCLC
  • 39610656
  • SCSB-10003280
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library