Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781474485708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str.

Cathrine O. Frank

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Introduction: Character-Building: Narrative Theory, Narrative Jurisprudence, and the Idea of Character; 1. Incriminating Character: Revisiting the Right to Silence in Adam Bede and The Scarlet Letter; 2. Gossip, Hearsay, and the Character Exception: Reputation on Trial in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and R v. Rowton; 3. Defamation of Character: Anthony Trollope and the Law of Libel; 4. Dignity, Disclosure and the Right to Privacy: The Strange Characters of Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray; 5. The English Dreyfus Case: Status as Character in an Illiberal Age; Works Cited.