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The crime in mind : criminal responsibility and the Victorian novel /

This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rodensky, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes
  • "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt
  • Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind
  • James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative
  • Modern responsibilities.