Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-160) and index.
Contents:
"Termes queinte of lawe" and quaint fantasies of literature : Chaucer's Man of law and Wife of Bath -- Public affairs and juridical intimacies : seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French and English women novelists -- Black letters and black rams : law, gender, and the novel in early eighteenth-century England -- How to tell a story that might prevent a hanging : Mary Blandy, parricide, 1752 -- Statues, statutes, and queens on trial.
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