William P MacNeil

Novel Judgements

Legal Theory as Fiction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Novel Judgements addresses the ways in which jurisprudential ideas and themes are embedded and explored within nineteenth century Anglo-American prose fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780415459143
• ISBN-10: 0415459141
• Artikelnr.: 29017814

Autorenporträt

William P. MacNeil is the Dean of the Griffith Law School, Queensland, Australia. Trained in both law and literature, MacNeil has published widely in the field of cultural legal studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Pro lex omenon: Towards a Novel Legal Theory of the Novel as Legal Theory
2. John Austin or Jane Austen? The Province of Jurisprudence Determined in
Pride and Prejudice 3.Jousting with Bentham: Utility, Morality and Ethics
in Ivanhoe's Tournament of Law 4. The Monstrous Body of the Law:
Wollstonecraft vs. Shelley 5. Hawthorne 's Haunted House of Law: The
Romance of American Legal Realism in The House of the Seven Gables 6. In
Boz We Trust! Bleak House's (Re)Imagination of Trusteeship.7: Two on a
Guillotine? Courts and 'Crits' in A Tale of Two Cities 8. Beyond
Governmentality: The Question of Justice in Great Expectations 9. A
Jurisprudential Postscript: Century's Close and the End of of the
(Meta)Narrative of Law