| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 176 pages) |
|
text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: turning and turning: the gyres of modern law, culture, and the interiority of the civil subject -- Legal reforms, the blackmailer's charter, and Oscar Wilde's trials: the legal state of modernism -- Law's empire writes back: legal positivism and literary rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad -- High modernist challenges to legal authority in Ford and Joyce -- Conclusion: manufacturing individual identity -- Notes -- Works consulted -- Index. |
| Summary |
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. By tracing the relationships between the literature, authors, media, and judicial procedure of the time, Barleben illuminates the somewhat macabre element of modern British trial process, which still enacts and re-enacts itself throughout contemporary judicial systems of the British Commonwealth. Using little seen legal documents, like Ford's contempt trial decision, Staging the Trials of Modernism uncovers the conversations between the interior style of British Modern authors and the ways in which law began rethinking concepts like intent and the subconscious. Barleben's fresh insights offer a nuanced look into the ways in which law influences literary production. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History.
|
|
English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
History. |
|
Law in literature.
|
|
Law in literature. |
|
Trials in literature.
|
|
Trials in literature. |
|
Culture in literature.
|
|
Culture in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Barleben, Dale, 1972- Staging the trials of modernism 1487501072 (OCoLC)959875535 |
| ISBN |
9781487512422 (electronic book) |
|
1487512422 (electronic book) |
|
1487501072 |
|
9781487501075 |
| Standard No. |
10.3138/9781487512422 |
|
