books
novel judgments legal theory and nineteenth century prose fiction
p novel judgements is a book about nineteenth century anglo american law and literature . but by redefining law as legal theory novel judgements departs from socio legal studies of law and literature often dated in their focus on past lawyering and court processes . this texts theoretical turn renders the period s law and literature relevant to today s readers because the nineteenth century novel when read jurisprudentially abounds in representations of law s controlling concepts many of which are still with us today . rights justice law s morality ; each are encoded novelistically in stock devices such as the country house friendship love courtship and marriage . in so rendering the public law as private domesticity these novels expose for legal and literary scholars alike the ways in which law comes to mediate all relationships individual and collective personal and political during the nineteenth century a period as much under the rule of law as the reign of capital . so these novels pass judgement a novel judgement on the extent to which the nineteenth century s idea of law is collusive with that era s capital thereby opening up the possibility of a new legal theoretical position that of a critique of the law and a law of critique .
paperback taylor & francis 2010 isbn13 9780415459150 isbn10 041545915x
book type fi isbn 13 9780415459150 number of pages 234 publisher taylor & francis