Dieter Paul Polloczek

Literature and Legal Discourse

Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the intersection between law and literature in the eighteenth century and modernist period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521126809
• ISBN-10: 0521126800
• Artikelnr.: 27986791

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental
confinement in Sterne's novels; 2. Reinstitutionalising the common law:
Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules; 3. Aporias of
retribution and questions of responsibility: classifying the legacy of
incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House; 4. A curse gone recursive: the case
and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'; 5.
Conclusion.