Legal Narratives In Victorian Fiction
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Legal Narratives In Victorian Fiction
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Author : Joanne Bridget Simpson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Legal Narratives In Victorian Fiction written by Joanne Bridget Simpson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with English fiction categories.
"The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations. This book establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period and examines the inherent role of the law in the construction of the narrative in the literature of the nineteenth century. From the approach to the operation of jurisprudence and legal application, to the prosecution of the poor, the criminological approach to moral panics and the use of the affirmative defence to mitigate women within society, this book explores the ways in which the authors of the period used the novel form as a way of challenging and critiquing the legal operating model of the world in which their characters found themselves; exploring the way in which the authors of the period used the novel as a means of critiquing the nature of the role of the law within society, its impact upon the general public, and the reciprocity which exists between legal ideals and the society which manifests those ideals through thought and action. This is a useful text for students of 19th century literature or the law"--
Sublime Rascals
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Author : Joanne Simpson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Sublime Rascals written by Joanne Simpson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Legal Narratives In Victorian Fiction
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Author : Joanne Bridget Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Legal Narratives In Victorian Fiction written by Joanne Bridget Simpson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Fiction categories.
The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations. This book establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period and examines the inherent role of the law in the construction of the narrative in the literature of the nineteenth century. From the approach to the operation of jurisprudence and legal application, to the prosecution of the poor, the criminological approach to moral panics and the use of the affirmative defence to mitigate women within society, this book explores the ways in which the authors of the period used the novel form as a way of challenging and critiquing the legal operating model of the world in which their characters found themselves; examining the way in which the authors of the period used the novel as a means of critiquing the nature of the role of the law within society, its impact upon the general public, and the reciprocity which exists between legal ideals and the society which manifests those ideals through thought and action. This is a useful text for students of nineteenth-century literature or the law.
Common Precedents
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Author : Ayelet Ben-Yishai
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015
Common Precedents written by Ayelet Ben-Yishai and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society. Enabling the recognition of the new and its assimilation as part of a continuous past, Ayelet Ben-Yishai argues that the binding force of precedent also functions as the binding element of an always shifting commonality, pulling it together in the face of rupture and dispersion. By appearing to bring the past seamlessly into the present, the form of legal precedent became vital to the preservation of a sense of commonality and continuity crucial to the common law and Victorian legal culture. But the impact of precedent extended beyond legal practices and institutions to the culture at large, and especially to its fiction. Ben-Yishai argues that understanding the structure of precedent also explains fictional form: how fictionality works, its epistemology, and the ways in which its commonalities are socially constructed, maintained, and reified.
Testimony And Advocacy In Victorian Law Literature And Theology
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Author : Jan-Melissa Schramm
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-20
Testimony And Advocacy In Victorian Law Literature And Theology written by Jan-Melissa Schramm and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-20 with History categories.
The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could 'speak for themselves' - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled barristers to address the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with felony. Increasingly, professional acts of interpretation were seen as necessary to achieve a just verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by eye witnesses at criminal trials. Jan-Melissa Schramm examines the profound impact of the changing nature of evidence in law and theology on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Already a locus of theological conflict, the idea of testimony became a fiercely contested motif of Victorian debate about the ethics of literary and legal representation. She argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy which both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their storytelling counterparts at the Bar.
Legal And Literary Discourse On The Jury In The Victorian Period
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Author : Kathleen Adelaide Shapley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Legal And Literary Discourse On The Jury In The Victorian Period written by Kathleen Adelaide Shapley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
This dissertation critically examines representations of the jury in Victorian novels. I argue that studying the jury, as a concept and in practice, offers a unique window to both the social and literary vision of Victorian novelists. The second half of the nineteenth century saw a decline in the use and cultural perception of the jury, and the controversy surrounding the jury's competency to administer justice implicated broad social questions of education and class that shaped the formation of British identity. The Victorian debate over the future of the jury was a public conversation occurring in legal treatises, the press, and in literature. By engaging in the debate over the future of the institution of the jury, Victorian novelists forge their own "juryman's guidebook" to educate the readers, the potential jurors of England. In addition to social questions, I examine how the novel uses features of the jury--the jury's role as a "finder of fact" and the jury's narrative silence--as narrative techniques. Novelists explore the jury's role as a "finder of fact" while negotiating their own role as "finder of fact" by balancing legal realism with legal imagination in fictional legal narratives. Additionally, examining the jury's narrative silence is essential to understanding each author's legal imagination. By analyzing the narrative techniques and descriptive strategies surrounding the jury in the works of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon and Henry Rider Haggard, this project demonstrates how the Victorian cultural anxiety over the future of the jury is captured in literature across genres. The responses of these authors to the jury debate range from ambivalence to concrete visions for legal reform; however, each of these authors, through serious engagement with a legal controversy, writes the law.
The Crime In Mind
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Author : Lisa Rodensky
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Crime In Mind written by Lisa Rodensky and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Crime in literature categories.
This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.
Colonial Law In India And The Victorian Imagination
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Author : Leila Neti
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Colonial Law In India And The Victorian Imagination written by Leila Neti and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.
Neo Victorian Fiction And Historical Narrative
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Author : L. Hadley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2010-10-13
Neo Victorian Fiction And Historical Narrative written by L. Hadley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.
Fictional Discourse And The Law
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Author : Hans J. Lind
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Fictional Discourse And The Law written by Hans J. Lind and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Law categories.
Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and unique perspective of fictional discourse. Pursuing an empirical approach, and using examples that range from Victorian literature to the current judicial treatment of rap music, the volume challenges the prevailing fact–fiction dichotomy in legal theory and practice by providing a better understanding of the peculiarities of legal fictionality, while also contributing further material to fictional theory’s endeavor to find a transdisciplinary valid criterion for a definition of fictional discourse. Following the basic presumptions of the early law-as-literature movement, past approaches have mainly focused on textuality and narrativity as the common denominators of law and literature, and have largely ignored the topic of fictionality. This volume provides a much needed analysis of this gap. The book will be of interest to scholars of legal theory, jurisprudence and legal writing, along with literature scholars and students of literature and the humanities.