Character : writing and reputation in Victorian law and literature / Cathrine O. Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Cathrine O., author.

Series:

Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English fiction.

Law in literature.

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

Law and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Drawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Character-Building: Narrative Theory, Narrative Jurisprudence, and the Idea of Character

1 Incriminating Character: Revisiting the Right to Silence in Adam Bede and The Scarlet Letter

2 Gossip, Hearsay, and the Character Exception: Reputation on Trial in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and R v Rowton

3 Defamation of Character: Anthony Trollope and the Law of Libel

4 Dignity, Disclosure, and the Right to Privacy: The Strange Characters of Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray

5 The English Dreyfus Case: Status as Character in an Illiberal Age

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 24, 2023).

ISBN:

1-3995-1340-0

1-4744-8572-3

OCLC:

1298392051