Defending Privilege : Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel /

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"This study is about the intersection of law and literature in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The author explores how in a turbulent era of political revolution, the abolition of slavery, and increasing class and gender mobility, British literary authors used the...

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Main Author: Mansfield Wright, Nicole (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literature and society.
Law and literature.
British literature.
Litterature britannique > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature britannique > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Droit et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Droit et litterature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
British literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
British literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Law and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Law and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : A Neglected Inheritance
  • Part I : Downward mobility and the safety net of the law
  • "Bad citizens" and "insolent foreigners" : Tobias Smollett's elite outsiders and the suspension of legal agency
  • Covert critique : genteel victimhood in Charlotte Smith's fictions of dispossession
  • Part II : The Pen as a weapon against reform of the law
  • Letters of the law : ambivalent advocacy and speaking for the voiceless in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet
  • Masters of passion and tongue : white eye-witnesses and fear of black testimony in the pro-slavery novel
  • Epilogue : Abiding the Law.

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