Focusing on criminality, caste, inheritance and adoption, this text illustrates how crosscurrents between literature and the law shaped, and were shaped by, broader Victorian ideological norms, appealing to scholars and students of nineteenth-century literature, colonial and legal history, and particularly Indian colonial culture.
Focusing on criminality, caste, inheritance and adoption, this text illustrates how crosscurrents between literature and the law shaped, and were shaped by, broader Victorian ideological norms, appealing to scholars and students of nineteenth-century literature, colonial and legal history, and particularly Indian colonial culture.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Leila Neti is an Associate Professor of English at Occidental College, Los Angeles. Her published articles have appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Law and Literature, and in various edited collections.
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Introduction Part I. Criminality: 1. 'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear 2. 'The Social Life of Crime': Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug Part II. Temporality: 3. 'Injurious Pasts': The Temporality of Caste 4. On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone Part III. Adoption and Inheritance: 5. 'The Begum's Fortune': Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property 6. 'Foundlings and Adoptees': Filiality in George Eliot's Novels Afterword Bibliography.
Introduction Part I. Criminality: 1. 'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear 2. 'The Social Life of Crime': Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug Part II. Temporality: 3. 'Injurious Pasts': The Temporality of Caste 4. On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone Part III. Adoption and Inheritance: 5. 'The Begum's Fortune': Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property 6. 'Foundlings and Adoptees': Filiality in George Eliot's Novels Afterword Bibliography.
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