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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Main Author: Polloczek, Dieter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999
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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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