Title Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. / Nicole Mansfield Wright.

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : A Neglected Inheritance -- Part I : Downward mobility and the safety net of the law -- "Bad citizens" and "insolent foreigners" : Tobias Smollett's elite outsiders and the suspension of legal agency -- Covert critique : genteel victimhood in Charlotte Smith's fictions of dispossession -- Part II : The Pen as a weapon against reform of the law -- Letters of the law : ambivalent advocacy and speaking for the voiceless in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet -- Masters of passion and tongue : white eye-witnesses and fear of black testimony in the pro-slavery novel -- Epilogue : Abiding the Law.
Summary	"This study is about the intersection of law and literature in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The author explores how in a turbulent era of political revolution, the abolition of slavery, and increasing class and gender mobility, British literary authors used their work to reshape and manipulate public perceptions of who merits legal agency: the right to initiate a lawsuit, serve as a witness, and seek counsel from a lawyer"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject	Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Literature and society.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
	Law and literature.
	Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	British literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
	British literature.
	British literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	1700-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Mansfield Wright, Nicole. Defending privilege. Rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2020 9781421433738 (OCoLC)1127975234
ISBN	9781421433752 (electronic book)
	1421433753 (electronic book)
	9781421433738
	1421433745
	9781421433745
	1421433737

Title Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. / Nicole Mansfield Wright.

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