Literature and legal discourse : equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad /

"Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Polloczek, Dieter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
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 judiciaire anglais > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Équité > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Discours littéraire.
Morale dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature.
literary criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Discourse analysis, Literary
English fiction
Equity
Ethics in literature
Law and literature
Legal stories, English
Recht
Roman
Letterkunde.
Recht.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Morale > Dans la littérature.
Great Britain
Englisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels
  • 3. Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules
  • 4. Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House
  • 5. A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus"
  • 6. Conclusion.

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