The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel

ISBN-13: 9780195150742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str.

Lisa Rodensky

Opis

This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.

Recenzje

A consistently intelligent study.... The value of this thoughtful book lies not just in adding to our understanding of the relationships between law and literature, but to debates about the developing Victorian notions of the inner self and of personal identity.