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Author:

Ben-Yishai, Ayelet.

Title:

Common precedents : the presentness of the past in Victorian law and fiction / Ayelet Ben-Yishai.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xii, 191 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Stare decisis--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Judicial process--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Social change in literature.
England--Social conditions--19th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: common precedents -- Pt. 1. The forms of legal precedent -- Stare decisis and the history of legal precedent -- Law reports: form and function -- Anti-narrativity -- Anti-narrativity and the history of law reporting -- Pt. 2. Precedential forms of fiction -- precedential reasoning: George Eliot's Middlemarch -- Empirical customs: heirlooms and facts in Trollope's Eustace diamonds -- Past perfect: legitimacy and the Woman in white.

ISBN:

0199937656
9780199937653
0199937648
9780199937646

OCLC:

(OCoLC)800446591

LCCN:

2012026105

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)