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Author:

Wright, Nicole, 1982- author.

Title:

Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel / Nicole Mansfield Wright.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 210 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.
Law and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Law and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.
British literature--18th century--History and criticism.
British literature--19th century--History and criticism.
British literature.
Law and literature.
Literature and society.
Great Britain.
1700-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Bad citizens" and "insolent foreigners" : Smollett's elite outsiders and the suspense of legal agency -- Couverte critique : genteel victimhood in Charlotte Smith's fictions of dispossession -- "Masters of passion and tongue" : white "eye-witnesses" and fear of black testimony in the pro-slavery novel -- Letters of the law : ambivalent advocacy and speaking for the voiceless in Redgauntlet -- Epilogue : abiding the law.

Summary:

"This study is about the intersection of law and literature in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The author explores how in a turbulent era of political revolution, the abolition of slavery, and increasing class and gender mobility, British literary authors used their work to reshape and manipulate public perceptions of who merits legal agency: the right to initiate a lawsuit, serve as a witness, and seek counsel from a lawyer"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781421433745
1421433745
1421433737
9781421433738

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1107062132

LCCN:

2019010078

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)