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03314aam a2200397 i 4500 001 7FEFEDA08FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220217010136 008 210324t20222022enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021014066 020 $a 1032003723 020 $a 9781032003726 020 $a 0367760320 020 $a 9780367760328 035 $a (OCoLC)1245959722 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a K487.L7 $b M44 2022 082 00 $a 809/.93355409034 $2 23 100 1 $a Mehmi, Suneel, $e author. 245 10 $a Law, literature and the power of reading : $b literalism and photography in the nineteenth century / $c Suneel Mehmi. 264 1 $a Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; $b Routledge, $c 2022. 300 $a vi, 166 pages ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Discourses of law 520 $a "At the intersection of law, literature and history this book interrogates how a dominant contemporary idea of law emerged out of specific ideas of reading in the nineteenth century. Reading shapes our identities. How we read shapes who we are. Reading also shapes our conceptions of what the law is, because the law is also a practice of reading. Focusing on the works of key Victorian writers closely associated with legal practice, this book addresses the way in which the identity of the reader of law has been modelled on the identity of the political elite. At the same time, it shows how other readers of law have been marginalized. The book thus shows how a construction of the law has emerged from the the ordering of a power that discriminates between different readers and readings. More specifically, and in response to the emerging media of photography and with it, potentially subversive ideas of exposure and visibility the book shows that there have been dominant, hidden and unrecognised guides to legal reading and to legal thought. And in making these visible the book aims also to make them contestable. This secret history of law will appeal to legal historians, legal theorists, those working at the intersection of law and literature, and others with interests in law and the visual"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages158-164) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Representation of photography, literalist reading and "the absence of higher truths" in art -- Photography's "fatal resemblances" : reading the invisibility of individuality and truth in the work of Wilkie Collins -- Representation and reading against photographic details in the work of Henry James -- Photograph albums in fiction -- the illegitimate plots and counter-narratives of the photograph-book -- Conclusion. 650 0 $a Law and literature. 650 0 $a Law and art. 650 7 $a Law and art. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993894 650 7 $a Law and literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00993913 776 08 $i Online version: $a Mehmi, Suneel, $t Law, literature, and the power of reading $d Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business, 2022 $z 9781003173854 $w (DLC) 2021014067 830 0 $a Discourses of law. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017013251.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7FEFEDA08FC011ECBA4AA6A62FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search