Reading for the law : British literary history and gender advocacy /

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"Taking her title from the British term for legal study, "to read for the law:' Christine L. Krueger asks how "reading for the law" as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. She argues that a multidisciplinary...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Krueger, Christine L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Series:Victorian literature and culture series.
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism.
Legal stories, English > History and criticism.
Law and literature > Great Britain > History.
Law in literature.
Female offenders in literature.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain > History.
Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation > Great Britain > History.
Feminist jurisprudence > Great Britain.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Droit et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Droit dans la littérature.
Criminelles dans la littérature.
Féminisme et droit > Grande-Bretagne.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Law and literature.
Legal stories, English.
Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history
  • Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch
  • Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale
  • The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism
  • Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman
  • Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports
  • Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault
  • Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon
  • Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers
  • The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.

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