| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 178 pages). |
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Law language |
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text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Trish Ferguson examines how Thomas Hardy's role as an acting magistrate and his lifelong interest in the law impacted on his prose fiction. Hardy's novels and short stories are examined in the context of debates surrounding some of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century, namely the birth of adversarial trial procedure, the evolving definition of legal insanity, the campaign for legal equality for married women, and heightened discussion over land law reform. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Imprint; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1 'If You Only Knew Me Through and Through': The Domestic Trial Scene and Narrative Advocacy; 2 'I Was Not in My Senses, and a Man's Senses Are Himself': The Legal Defence of Insanity; 3 'I Hate to be Thought Men's Property in That Way': Married Women and the Law; 4 'Waiters on Chance': The Tichborne Claimant, Land Law Reform and Rural Dispossession; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Knowledge and learning -- Law.
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Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. |
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Legal stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Legal stories, English. |
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Law in literature.
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Law in literature. |
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Lawyers in literature.
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Lawyers in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0748673245 |
| ISBN |
1299964060 electronic book |
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9781299964068 electronic book |
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9780748673254 electronic book |
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0748673253 electronic book |
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9780748673247 (hardback) |
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