Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. /

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Author / Creator:	Mansfield Wright, Nicole, author.
Imprint:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. British literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. British literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. British literature. Law and literature. Literature and society. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12872404

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ISBN:	9781421433752 1421433753 9781421433738 1421433745 9781421433745 1421433737
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 28, 2020).
Summary:	"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 their work to reshape and manipulate public perceptions of who merits legal agency: the right to initiate a lawsuit, serve as a witness, and seek counsel from a lawyer"--
Other form:	Print version: Mansfield Wright, Nicole. Defending privilege. Rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2020 9781421433738

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