Subversion and sympathy : gender, law, and the British novel /

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Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Description:xxii, 313 pages ; 25 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8945893
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Other authors / contributors:Nussbaum, Martha C. (Martha Craven), 1947-
LaCroix, Alison L.
Stone, Geoffrey R.
Posner, Richard A.
Baird, Douglas G., 1953-
Levmore, Saul
Wood, Diane P.
ISBN:9780199812042
0199812047
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Subversion and Sympathy : Gender, Law, and the British Novel brings new energy and perspective to the law-and-literature movement. Focusing on the position of women in British novels of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - a period during which literature played a creative role in legal reform - the book illustrates the many ways in which the investigation of legal matters sheds new light on major literary works. At the same time, it shows that attention to literary representations of legal issues illuminates developments in the law by bringing to life matters at stake in legal reforms. In fourteen essays, the volume spans a range of gender-related issues, including inheritance, money lending, illegitimacy, marriage, and rape. At the same time, it makes a methodological contribution, displaying (and discussing) a range of perspectives that exemplifies the breadth and range of this interdisciplinary area of scholarship, which links history, gender studies, philosophy, literary studies, and law. The volume seeks to reinvigorate the methodology of the law-and-literature movement by provoking a cross-disciplinary conversation among legal scholars, judges, literary scholars, and feminist philosophers. Participants include those already known for their work on law and literature but also, crucially, legal leading lights who have not previously written about literature. Subversion and Sympathy shows that the conversation between law and literature can enrich our understanding not just of the fields in question but also of the deeper human issues at the heart of a given period - and beyond"--Unedited summary from book jacket.
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505 0 |a Preface / Diane P. Wood -- Introduction / Alison L. LaCroix and Martha C. Nussbaum -- The moral and legal consequences of wife selling in The mayor of Casterbridge / Julie C. Suk -- Jude the obscure: the irrelevance of marriage law / Amanda Claybaugh -- The history of obscenity, the British novel, and the First Amendment / Geoffrey R. Stone -- Jane Austen: comedy and social structure / Richard A. Posner -- Pious perjury in Scott's The heart of midlothian / Julia Simon-Kerr -- Rape, seduction, purity, and shame in Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Marcia Baron -- The stain of illegitimacy: gender, law, and Trollopian subversion / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Could he forgive her? Gender, agency, and women's criminality in the novels of Anthony Trollope / Nicola Lacey -- Law, commerce, and gender in Trollope's Framley parsonage / Douglas G. Baird -- Primogeniture, legal change, and Trollope / Saul Levmore -- Defoe's formal laws / Bernadette Meyler -- The Lawyer's library in the early American Republic / Alison L. LaCroix -- Proposals and performative utterance in the nineteenth-century novel: the professional man's plight / Robert A. Ferguson -- A comeuppance theory of narrative and the emotions / Blakey Vermeule. 
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