Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature

Cathrine O. Frank

ISBN 10: 1474485707 / ISBN 13: 9781474485708

Edité par Edinburgh University Press, 2021

Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature | Cathrine O. Frank | Buch | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities | Gebunden | Englisch | 2021 | Edinburgh University Press | EAN 9781474485708 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. N° de réf. du vendeur 120326357

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.

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 bibliographiques

Titre : Character, Writing, and Reputation in ...
Éditeur : Edinburgh University Press
Date d'édition : 2021
Reliure : Buch
Etat : Neu