Subversion and sympathy [electronic resource] : gender, law, and the British novel /
by Nussbaum, Martha Craven; LaCroix, Alison L.
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BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199315888 (ebook) :.Subject(s): English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism | English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Gender identity in literature | Law in literatureOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds the contributors reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by displaying a range of ways in which literature and law can illuminate one another, and in which the conversation between them can illuminate deeper human issues with which both disciplines are concerned.
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This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds the contributors reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by displaying a range of ways in which literature and law can illuminate one another, and in which the conversation between them can illuminate deeper human issues with which both disciplines are concerned.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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