Literature and legal discourse : equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad /
"Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical,...
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Cambridge University Press,
1999
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| 100 | 1 | |a Polloczek, Dieter | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Literature and legal discourse : |b equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad / |c Dieter Paul Polloczek |
| 260 | |a Cambridge, UK ; |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 1999 | ||
| 300 | |a viii, 269 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-263) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels -- 3. Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules -- 4. Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House -- 5. A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" -- 6. Conclusion | |
| 506 | |a Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users | ||
| 520 | 1 | |a "Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and includes texts from Sterne, Bentham, Dickens and Conrad."--Jacket | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Legal stories, English |x History and criticism | |
| 650 | 0 | |a English fiction |x History and criticism | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Equity |z Great Britain |x History | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Discourse analysis, Literary | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Ethics in literature | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Law and literature | |
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| 852 | |a Law Library |b Third Floor |h PR830.L43 .P65 1999 |p 33940004515092 | ||