Dale Barleben

Staging the Trials of Modernism

Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness

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Produktbeschreibung

In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781487501075
• ISBN-10: 1487501072
• Artikelnr.: 46489732

Autorenporträt

Dale Barleben is Assistant Professor of Law and Literature at John Jay College, City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction - Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture and
the Interiority of the Civil Subject
Chapter 1 - Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer’s Charter and Oscar Wilde’s
Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism
Chapter 2 - Law’s Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary
Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad
Chapter 3 - High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce
Chapter 4 - Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity
Works Consulted