Leila Neti

Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on criminality, caste, inheritance and adoption, this text illustrates how crosscurrents between literature and the law shaped, and were shaped by, broader Victorian ideological norms, appealing to scholars and students of nineteenth-century literature, colonial and legal history, and particularly Indian colonial culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781108837484
• ISBN-10: 1108837484
• Artikelnr.: 60478454

Autorenporträt

Leila Neti is an Associate Professor of English at Occidental College, Los Angeles. Her published articles have appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Law and Literature, and in various edited collections.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Criminality: 1. 'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear
2. 'The Social Life of Crime': Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug
Part II. Temporality: 3. 'Injurious Pasts': The Temporality of Caste
4. On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
Part III. Adoption and Inheritance: 5. 'The Begum's Fortune': Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property
6. 'Foundlings and Adoptees': Filiality in George Eliot's Novels
Afterword
Bibliography.