| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels -- 3. Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules -- 4. Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House -- 5. A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" -- 6. Conclusion |
| Summary |
"Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and includes texts from Sterne, Bentham, Dickens and Conrad."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-263) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Legal stories, English -- History and criticism
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English fiction -- History and criticism
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Equity -- Great Britain -- History
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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Ethics in literature.
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Law and literature.
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literary criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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English fiction
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Equity
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Ethics in literature
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Law and literature
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Legal stories, English
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Recht
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Roman
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Letterkunde.
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Recht.
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Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique -- Théorie, etc.
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Équité -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
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Morale -- Dans la littérature.
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Great Britain
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Englisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511006241 |
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9780511006241 |
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0511033044 |
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9780511033049 |
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0511117752 |
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9780511117756 |
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9780521652513 |
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9780521126809 |
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9781280154522 |
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9780511149863 |
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0511303017 |
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9780511303012 |
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0511048270 |
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9780511048272 |
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