Colonial law in India and the Victorian imagination / Leila Neti, Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neti, Leila, author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee.

Great Britain.

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Law and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Law and literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Justice, Administration of--India--History--19th century.

Justice, Administration of.

History.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 302 pages).

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

I. Criminality

'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear

The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug

II. Temporality

Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste

On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone

III. Adoption and Inheritance

The Begum's Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property

Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in George Eliot's Novels.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Neti, Leila. Colonial law in India and the Victorian imagination

ISBN:

9781108938280

1108938280

Publisher Number:

99987261148

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