Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature

ISBN-13: 9781474485715 / Angielski

Cathrine Frank

Opis

Drawing on primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterisation mingled with character-centred legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession.

Spis treści

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.