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

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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.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
Legal stories, English > History and criticism.
Law and literature > History > 19th century.
Criminal liability in literature.
Responsibility in literature.
Criminals in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Criminalité dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Responsabilité pénale dans la littérature.
Responsabilité dans la littérature.
Criminels dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Crime in literature
Criminal liability in literature
Criminals in literature
English fiction
Law and literature
Legal stories, English
Responsibility in literature
Fictie.
Engels.
Criminaliteit.
Strafprocessen.
Strafrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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.

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