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Title:

Subversion and sympathy : gender, law, and the British novel / edited by Martha C. Nussbaum and Alison LaCroix.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

xxii, 313 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Law in literature.

Other Authors:

Nussbaum, Martha Craven, 1947-
LaCroix, Alison L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Preface / Diane P. Wood -- Introduction / Alison L. LaCroix and Martha C. Nussbaum -- The moral and legal consequences of wife selling in The mayor of Casterbridge / Julie C. Suk -- Jude the obscure : the irrelevance of marriage law / Amanda Claybaugh -- The history of obscenity, the British novel, and the First Amendment / Geoffrey R. Stone -- Jane Austen : comedy and social structure / Richard A. Posner -- Pious perjury in Scott's The heart of midlothian / Julia Simon-Kerr -- Rape, seduction, purity, and shame in Tess of the d'Urbervilles / Marcia Baron -- The stain of illegitimacy : gender, law, and Trollopian subversion / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Could he forgive her? : gender, agency, and women's criminality in the novels of Anthony Trollope / Nicola Lacey -- Law, commerce, and gender in Trollope's Framley parsonage / Douglas G. Baird -- Primogeniture, legal change, and Trollope / Saul Levmore -- Defoe's formal laws / Bernadette Meyler -- The Lawyer's library in the early American Republic / Alison L. LaCroix -- Proposals and performative utterance in the nineteenth-century novel : the professional man's plight / Robert A. Ferguson -- A comeuppance theory of narrative and the emotions / Blakey Vermeule.

ISBN:

0199812047 (alk. paper)
9780199812042 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)781277907

LCCN:

2012006850

Locations:

USUX851 -- ISU Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (University of Iowa) (Iowa City)