| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 168 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
The cultural lives of law
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Cultural lives of law.
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| Contents |
"Termes queinte of lawe" and quaint fantasies of literature : Chaucer's Man of law and Wife of Bath -- Public affairs and juridical intimacies : seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French and English women novelists -- Black letters and black rams : law, gender, and the novel in early eighteenth-century England -- How to tell a story that might prevent a hanging : Mary Blandy, parricide, 1752 -- Statues, statutes, and queens on trial. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Disruptive women, with their real or imagined excesses, have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This work analyses a series of texts to demonstrate the persistence of certain gender stereotypes. In her 1820 trial for adultery Queen Caroline was depicted in a cartoon riding on a black ram that had the face of her Italian lover. As this book reveals, a number of women, remembered largely for their insubordinate presence, have metaphorically 'ridden the black ram' in the last 700 years. The author reveals a disquieting pattern in the representations of women, and provides a new recognition of the significance of sexuality and gender in the way we narrate our world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism.
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English fiction. |
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Law and literature -- England -- History.
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Law and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Women and literature -- England -- History.
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Women and literature. |
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Law in literature.
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Law in literature. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Heinzelman, Susan Sage. Riding the black ram. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, ©2010 9780804756808 (DLC) 2009035617 (OCoLC)434613458 |
| ISBN |
9780804773683 (electronic book) |
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0804773688 (electronic book) |
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0804756805 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804756808 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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