Dieter Paul Polloczek

Literature and Legal Discourse (eBook, PDF)

Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad

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Produktbeschreibung

The intersection between law and literature is a developing area in literary studies. Existing work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. In Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad Dieter Polloczek develops this idea by comparing the notion of equity, or ethics, in fiction with its legal equivalent. He shows how the novel, with its increasing social scope and formal sophistication, provided a means of transmitting, questioning and refining society's traditions, values and modes of self-questioning. Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions like substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalisation. Pollozcek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511033049
• Artikelnr.: 38203058

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental
confinement in Sterne's novels; 2. Reinstitutionalising the common law:
Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules; 3. Aporias of
retribution and questions of responsibility: classifying the legacy of
incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House; 4. A curse gone recursive: the case
and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'; 5.
Conclusion.