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1 online resource (x, 276 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Professionalism in Law and Literature -- The (Mis)Rule of Law -- The "Official" Narratives of William Dean Howells -- Helen Hunt Jackson and the Romance of Indian Nationhood -- Narrating Citizenship in Pauline Hopkins's "Contending Forces" -- Charles Chesnutt's Fictions of Ownership -- Privacy and Subjectivity in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth -- Theodore Dreiser's Progressive Nostalgia. |
| Summary |
€œModdelmog moves throughout with accomplished assurance, making a powerful argument based on his expertise in both legal and literary history, establishing the terms of his engagement with other interdisciplinary voices, and producing genuinely original and interesting readings of canonical texts. Reconstituting Authority will become an important, well-received text, lending authority to the developing field of law and literature studies. â€? â€"Lee Mitchell, Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres, Princeton University In Reconstituting Authority, William Moddelmog explores the ways in which Ame. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Legal stories, American -- History and criticism.
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Legal stories, American. |
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
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19th century |
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American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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20th century |
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Law and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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Law and literature. |
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History. |
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Law and literature -- History -- 20th century.
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Authority in literature.
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Authority in literature. |
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Law in literature.
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Law in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moddelmog, William E., 1961- Reconstituting authority. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2000 0877457360 (DLC) 00044743 |
| ISBN |
1587293374 (electronic book) |
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9781587293375 (electronic book) |
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9780877457367 |
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0877457360 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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