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Riding the black ram : law, literature, and gender / Susan Sage Heinzelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heinzelman, Susan Sage.
- Series:
- Cultural lives of law.
- The cultural lives of law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Law and literature--England--History.
- Law and literature.
- Law in literature.
- Women and literature--England--History.
- Women and literature.
- Women in literature.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--England--History.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Riding the Black Ram demonstrates how, despite the changing nature of the relationship between law and literature, gender stereotypes regarding the figure of the unruly woman persist.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. "Termes Queinte of Lawe" and Quaint Fantasies of Literature: Chaucer's Man of Law and Wife of Bath; 2. Public Affairs and Juridical Intimacies: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century French and English Women Novelists; 3. Black Letters and Black Rams: Law, Gender, and the Novel in Early Eighteenth-Century England; 4. How to Tell a Story That Might Prevent a Hanging: Mary Blandy, Parricide, 1752; 5. Statues, Statutes, and Queens on Trial; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804773683
- 0804773688
- OCLC:
- 638861389
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