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Explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fictionGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748673247','ISBN:9780748673254']);This book examines how Hardy's role as an acting magistrate and his lifelong interest in the law impacted on his...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ferguson, Trish (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Colección:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
Temas:
Law in literature.
Lawyers in literature.
Legal stories, English > History and criticism.
Literary Studies.
LAW / General Practice.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. 'If You Only Knew Me Through and Through': The Domestic Trial Scene and Narrative Advocacy
  • 2. 'I Was Not in My Senses, and a Man's Senses Are Himself': The Legal Defence of Insanity
  • 3. 'I Hate to be Thought Men's Property in That Way': Married Women and the Law
  • 4. 'Waiters on Chance': The Tichborne Claimant, Land Law Reform and Rural Dispossession
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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