Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad by Diete

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Recent work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. Dieter Polloczek develops this idea in a theoretical and historical study, extending from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and covering texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.

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The intersection between law and literature is a developing area in literary studies. Recent work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. In Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad Dieter Polloczek develops this idea by comparing the notion of equity, or ethics, in fiction with its legal equivalent. He shows how the novel, with its increasing social scope and formal sophistication, provided a means of transmitting, questioning and refining society's traditions, values and modes of self-questioning. Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions like substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalisation. Pollozcek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels; 2. Reinstitutionalising the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules; 3. Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: classifying the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House; 4. A curse gone recursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'; 5. Conclusion.

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"Polloczek's sophisticted study has much to offer graduate students and scholars interested in the cultural nexus of literature and law." Choice

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This book explores the intersection between law and literature in the eighteenth century and modernist period.

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"Polloczek's sophisticted study has much to offer graduate students and scholars interested in the cultural nexus of literature and law." Choice

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This book explores the intersection between law and literature in the eighteenth century and modernist period.

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Existing work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. Dieter Polloczek develops this idea in a theoretical and historical study, extending from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and covering texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.

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Existing work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. Dieter Polloczek develops this idea in a theoretical and historical study, extending from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and covering texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.

Details ISBN0521652510 Short Title LITERATURE & LEGAL DISCOURSE Pages 278 Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 0521652510 ISBN-13 9780521652513 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 1999 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780521652513 UK Release Date 1999-09-09 AU Release Date 1999-09-09 NZ Release Date 1999-09-09 Author Dieter Paul Polloczek Publication Date 1999-09-09 Alternative 9780511485268 DEWEY 823.009355 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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