Character: Writing and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature - Couverture rigide

Frank, Cathrine O.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474485707 ISBN 13 : 9781474485708

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Why would Hawthorne and Eliot grant their fallen women an anachronistic right to silence that could only worsen their punishment? Why did Bronte and Gaskell find gossip such a useful source of information when lawyers excluded it as hearsay? How did Trollope's work as an editor influence his preoccupation throughout his novels with libel? Drawing on a range of primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law, and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession. She explores how key categories and representational strategies for imagining individual personhood also defined communities and mediated relations within them, in life and in fiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Cathrine O. Frank is Professor of English and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities major, University of New England, Maine, USA

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474485707
• ISBN 13: 9781474485708
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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