Riding the black ram : law, literature, and gender /

Disruptive women, with their real or imagined excesses, have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This work analyses a series of texts to demonstrate the persistence of certain gender stereotypes. In her 1820 trial for adultery Queen Caroline was depicted in a cartoon riding...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heinzelman, Susan Sage
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, ©2010.
Colección:Cultural lives of law.
Temas:
English fiction > History and criticism.
Law and literature > England > History.
Women and literature > England > History.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > England > History.
Law in literature.
Women in literature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Droit et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire.
Droit dans la littérature.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LAW / Gender & the Law
English fiction.
Law and literature.
Women and literature.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
England.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Termes queinte of lawe" and quaint fantasies of literature : Chaucer's Man of law and Wife of Bath
  • Public affairs and juridical intimacies : seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French and English women novelists
  • Black letters and black rams : law, gender, and the novel in early eighteenth-century England
  • How to tell a story that might prevent a hanging : Mary Blandy, parricide, 1752
  • Statues, statutes, and queens on trial.

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