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05019aam a2200529 i 4500 001 60475722E9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210721010052 008 201216t20212021enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020055529 020 $a 1108942350 020 $a 9781108942355 020 $a 1108837484 020 $a 9781108837484 035 $a (OCoLC)1198714634 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a PR878.L39 $b N48 2021 100 1 $a Neti, Leila, $e author. 245 10 $a Colonial law in India and the Victorian imagination / $c Leila Neti, Occidental College, Los Angeles. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 302 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a I. Criminality -- 'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear -- The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug -- II. Temporality -- Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste -- On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone -- III. Adoption and Inheritance -- The Begum's Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property -- Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in George Eliot's Novels. 520 $a "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination reads works of fiction from the nineteenth century alongside three legal cases heard before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which was the highest court of appeal for colonies within the British Empire. By pairing legal judgments with novels by prominent Victorian authors such as Charles Dickens, Philip Meadows Taylor, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, I show how crosscurrents between literature and the law shaped, and were shaped by, the broader ideals of imperial expansionism during the nineteenth century. Rather than thinking of the legal and literary realms as distinct, however, I read the judicial opinions as instances of narrative that share many of the same tropes and strategies typical to the nineteenth-century novel. The legal cases in the study are summarized in Moore's Indian Appeals, a 14-volume catalog of appeals from Indian courts to the Privy Council from 1836 to 1872. The written summaries of the cases, consumed as texts, were the main avenue through which an English audience could become acquainted with legal disputes in India. And, as is clear from my readings of the judicial opinions, the Privy Council used modes of narrativity (to organize temporality, character, plot etc.) that were also commonplace in Victorian literature. Reading the legal texts as literature allows us to explore the division between reality and fiction, and to look at the ways in which legal opinions created norms that intersected, often unpredictably, with other forms of cultural representation. As this book demonstrates, reading the archives of the JCPC and the Victorian novel together opens up a series of questions. Does fiction shape materiality in ways that are similar to how materiality shapes fiction? Does reading a text as fiction create different strategies and avenues of interpretation? Is what we think of as reality possible outside of the turns of imagination that we recognize in fiction? These are some of the questions that motivate this study and which Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination seeks to answer"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a Great Britain. $b Judicial Committee. $b Judicial Committee. 610 17 $a Great Britain. $b Judicial Committee. $b Judicial Committee. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00562364 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Law and literature $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) 650 0 $a Justice, Administration of $z India $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Justice, Administration of. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00985154 650 7 $a Law and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993913 650 7 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01032927 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Neti, Leila. $t Colonial law in India and the Victorian imagination $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781108938280 $w (DLC) 2020055530 830 0 $a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017024641.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=60475722E9E911EBBBC9467A3DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search