Reading for the Law : British Literary History and Gender Advocacy /

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Krueger, Christine L.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Collection:Victorian literature and culture series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Feminist jurisprudence > Great Britain.
Sex discrimination against women > Law and legislation > Great Britain > History.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Great Britain > History.
Female offenders in literature.
Law in literature.
Law and literature > Great Britain > History.
Legal stories, English > History and criticism.
English literature > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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