Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-7324-7 (ISBN)
Thomas Hardy’s fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which Hardy’s role as a magistrate and his interest in the law impacted fundamentally on his prose fiction. It demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day, and argues that Hardy used fiction as a forum to question the extent to which legal reform improved the lives of women and the working classes.
The study also looks at the ways in which Hardy deployed criminal plots derived from sensation fiction and reveals that the genre’s engagement with legal reform influenced not only his sensation novel Desperate Remedies (1871) but also the plots of his subsequent fiction.
Key Features
Offers a reinterpretation of Thomas Hardy’s work in the light of a detailed study of his legal interests and his use of contemporary legal cases and debates in his prose fictionProvides detailed textual analysis of a wide range of legal interests in Hardy’s entire output of fictionDraws on the interdisciplinary study of Law and LiteratureExamines Hardy’s fiction in the context of other Victorian literature concerned with legal issues, particularly sensation fiction
Trish Ferguson is currently lecturing at Liverpool Hope University, having completed her PhD at Trinity College Dublin. Her primary research interests are in Victorian literature and culture, in particular the interdisciplinary nexus of law and literature in that era. She has also edited a collection of essays entitled Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes, which is a study of literary responses to how industrialization affected perceptions of time in the Victorian era.
INTRODUCTION; “IF YOU ONLY KNEW ME THROUGH AND THROUGH”: THE DOMESTIC TRIAL SCENE AND NARRATIVE ADVOCACY; “I WASN’T IN MY SENSES – AND A MAN’S SENSES ARE HIMSELF”: THE LEGAL DEFENCE OF INSANITY; “I HATE TO BE THOUGHT MEN’S PROPERTY IN THAT WAY”: MARRIED WOMEN AND THE LAW; ‘WAITERS ON CHANCE’: THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT, LAND LAW REFORM AND RURAL DISPOSSESSION; CONCLUSION.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.8.2013 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 442 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7486-7324-5 / 0748673245 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7486-7324-7 / 9780748673247 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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