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    Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction

    Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction by Simpson, Joanne Bridget;

    Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 8 October 2024

    • ISBN 9781032409481
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages232 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Weight 430 g
    • Language English
    • 652

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    Short description:

    Legal Narratives In Victorian Fiction establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period.

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    Long description:

    The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations. This book establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period and examines the inherent role of the law in the construction of the narrative in the literature of the nineteenth century. From the approach to the operation of jurisprudence and legal application, to the prosecution of the poor, the criminological approach to moral panics and the use of the affirmative defence to mitigate women within society, this book explores the ways in which the authors of the period used the novel form as a way of challenging and critiquing the legal operating model of the world in which their characters found themselves; examining the way in which the authors of the period used the novel as a means of critiquing the nature of the role of the law within society, its impact upon the general public, and the reciprocity which exists between legal ideals and the society which manifests those ideals through thought and action. This is a useful text for students of nineteenth-century literature or the law.

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    Table of Contents:

    1. A Trying Situation: Narrative Structure and the Law


    2. Order in the Courts: The Writer and the Legal Applicability Debate

    3. Prosecuting the Poor: Victorian Poverty and the Poor Laws

    4. Bad and Mad: Defending the Criminal Woman

     

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