Bridget M. Marshall

The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790-1860 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts questioning the foundations of the Anglo-American justice system. Often invoking actual laws like the Black Act in England or the Fugitive Slave Act in America, gothic novels connect the genre's fantastic horrors with much more shocking examples of terror and injustice like American slavery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317013716
• Artikelnr.: 44782626

Autorenporträt

Bridget M. Marshall is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: legal tangles and Gothic trappings
Things are not as they should be: the legal system in William Godwin's Caleb Williams
Questioning the evidence of bodies and texts in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Reading unreadable texts and bodies: Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly
Slave narrative and the Gothic novel: Hannah Craft's The Bondwoman's Narrative
Closing arguments
Works cited
Index.