Literature and Legal Discourse : Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad.

Recent work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. Dieter Polloczek develops this idea in a theoretical and historical study, extending from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and covering texts from Sterne, Dickens, Ben...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Polloczek, Dieter Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Temas:
Legal stories, English > History and criticism.
English fiction > History and criticism.
Equity > Great Britain > History.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Ethics in literature.
Law and literature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Discours littéraire.
Morale dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature.
literary criticism.
Discourse analysis, Literary
English fiction
Equity
Ethics in literature
Law and literature
Legal stories, English
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels; CHAPTER 3 Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules; CHAPTER 4 Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House; CHAPTER 5 A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the ''Narcissus''; CHAPTER 6 Conclusion; Notes; Index.

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