Subversion and Sympathy
Gender, Law, and the British Novel
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2012
352 pages
978-0-19-981205-9 (ISBN)
Description
This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth 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. Their chapters shed light on a range of gender-related issues, from inheritance to money-lending to illegitimacy, but also make an important methodological contribution by displaying (and discussing) a range of methodological perspectives that exemplify the breadth and range of this discipline, which links history, gender studies, philosophy, literary studies, and law.
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Martha Nussbaum is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
Alison LaCroix is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction
- PART ONE | MARRIAGE AND SEX
- 1. The Moral and Legal Consequences of Wife Selling in: The Mayor of Casterbridge
- 2. Jude the Obscure: The Irrelevance of Marriage Law
- 3. The History of Obscenity, the British Novel, and the First Amendment
- 4. Jane Austen: Comedy and Social Structure
- PART TWO | LAW, SOCIAL NORMS, AND WOMEN'S AGENCY
- 5. Pious Perjury in Scott's: The Heart of Midlothian
- 6. Rape, Seduction, Purity, and Shame in: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- 7. The Stain of Illegitimacy: Gender, Law, and Trollopian Subversion
- 8. Could He Forgive Her? Gender, Agency, and Women's Criminality in the Novels of Anthony Trollope
- PART THREE | PROPERTY, COMMERCE, TRAVEL
- 9. Law, Commerce, and Gender in Trollope's: Framley Parsonage
- 10. Primogeniture, Legal Change, and Trollope
- 11. Defoe's Formal Laws
- PART FOUR | READERS AND INTERPRETATION
- 12. The Lawyer's Library in the Early American Republic
- 13. Proposals and Performative Utterance in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Professional Man's Plight
- 14. A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative and the Emotions
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