Brook Thomas

Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780521330817
• ISBN-10: 0521330815
• Artikelnr.: 35452403

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
An opening statement
Part I. Individuals, Judges, Property: 1. The Pioneers
or the sources of American legal history: a critical tale
2. The House of the Seven Gables: Hawthorne's legal story
3. The House of the Seven Gables: Hawthorne's romance of art
Part II. Wage and Chattel Slavery: 4. 'Benito Cereno': Melville's narrative of repression
5. A sentimental journey: escape from bondage in Uncle Tom's Cabin
6. Exploitation at home and at sea
7. 'Bartleby, the scrivener': fellow servants and free agents on Wall Street
8. Contracts and confidence men
Part III. Billy Budd and Re-Righting Legal History: 9. Measured forms
10. Ragged edges
A closing statement
notes
Index.