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Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. /

"This study is about the intersection of law and literature in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The author explores how in a turbulent era of political revolution, the abolition of slavery, and increasing class and gender mobility, British literary authors used the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mansfield Wright, Nicole (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |g Introduction : A Neglected Inheritance --  |g Part I : Downward mobility and the safety net of the law --  |t "Bad citizens" and "insolent foreigners" : Tobias Smollett's elite outsiders and the suspension of legal agency --  |t Covert critique : genteel victimhood in Charlotte Smith's fictions of dispossession --  |g Part II : The Pen as a weapon against reform of the law --  |t Letters of the law : ambivalent advocacy and speaking for the voiceless in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet --  |t Masters of passion and tongue : white eye-witnesses and fear of black testimony in the pro-slavery novel --  |g Epilogue : Abiding the Law. 
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