The crime in mind : criminal responsibility and the Victorian novel / Lisa Rodensky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodensky, Lisa.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

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 consequence" : 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:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-772359-4

9786610482214

1-4294-1518-5

1-280-83558-3

1-280-48221-4

0-19-803435-0

0-19-518524-2

OCLC:

476025275