Ayelet Ben-Yishai

Common Precedents

The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780190236854
• ISBN-10: 019023685X
• Artikelnr.: 47863802

Autorenporträt

Ayelet Ben-Yishai is Assistant Professor of English at The University of Haifa.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Common Precedents
Part I - The Forms Of Legal Precedent
1 Stare Decisis, Law Reports, and the Materiality of Legal Form
The History of Legal Precedent
Law Reports - Form and Function
Anti-narrativity
Anti-Narrativity and the History of Law Reporting
Part II - Precedential Forms of Fiction
2 Precedential Reasoning: George Eliot's Middlemarch
3 Empirical Customs:
Heirlooms And Facts In Trollope's Eustace Diamonds
4 Past Perfect: Legitimacy and The Woman in White