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Auteur(s) : Krueger, Christine L. (1957-....)
Titre(s) : Reading for the law [Texte imprimé] : British literary history and gender advocacy / Christine L. Krueger
Publication : Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia press, 2010
Description matérielle : [xiii], 301 p. ; 25 cm
Collection : Victorian literature and culture series
Lien à la collection : Victorian literature and culture series
Comprend : Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history ; Historiographies of witchcraft for
feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch ; Witchcraft
precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew
Hale ; The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography
to historical realism ; Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative
of the reasonable woman ; Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's
Hard cash and lunacy commission reports ; Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction
and indecent assault ; Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith
Gaunt to Georgina Weldon ; Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners
and infanticidal mothers ; The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against
sodomy prosecution.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index
"Taking her title from the British term for legal study, "to read for the law :' Christine
L. Krueger asks how "reading for the law" as literary history contributes to the progressive
educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. She argues that a multidisciplinary
"historical narrative jurisprudence" strengthens narrative legal theorists' claims
for the transformative powers of stories by replacing an ahistorical opposition between
literature and law with a history of their interdependence and their embeddedness
in print culture. Focusing on gender and feminist advocacy in the long nineteenth
century, Reading for the Law demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist
jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of
"outsider jurisprudence."" "Krueger develops this argument across discussions of key
jurisprudential concepts: precedent, agency, testimony, and motive. She draws from
a wide range of literary, legal, and historical sources, from the early modern period
through the Victorian age, as well as from contemporary literary, feminist, and legal
theory. Topics considered include the legacy of witchcraft prosecutions, the evolution
of the Reasonable Man standard of evidence in lunacy inquiries, the fate of female
witnesses and pro se litigants, advocacy for female prisoners and infanticide defendants,
and defense strategies for men accused of indecent assault and sodomy. The saliency
of the nineteenth-century British literary culture stems in part from its place in
a politico-legal tradition that produces the very conditions of narrative legal theorists'
aspirations for meaningful social transformation in modern, multicultural democracies."--BOOK
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Sujet(s) : Droit -- Dans la littérature
Droit et littérature -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire
Féminisme et droit -- Grande-Bretagne
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813928937 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0813928931 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9780813928975 (e-book). - ISBN 0813928974 (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42635794q
Notice n° :
FRBNF42635794
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