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The crime in mind : criminal responsibility and the Victorian novel / Lisa Rodensky.
Van Pelt Library PR878.C74 R63 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodensky, Lisa.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Crime in literature.
- Legal stories, English--History and criticism.
- Legal stories, English.
- Law and literature--History--19th century.
- Law and literature.
- Criminal liability in literature.
- Responsibility in literature.
- Criminals in literature.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 275 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.
- Contents:
- Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist
- Prologue to George Eliot's crimes
- "To fix our minds on that certainty" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt
- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind
- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative
- Modern responsibilities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195150732
- 0195150740
- OCLC:
- 50722239
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