Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature / / Cathrine O. Frank.
Examines legal and literary narratives of personhood in the 19th century Traces the concept of character through related areas of law, cultural discourses of character and the formal structures of the novel Offers new readings of works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gas...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Character-Building: Narrative Theory, Narrative Jurisprudence, and the Idea of Character
- 1 Incriminating Character: Revisiting the Right to Silence in Adam Bede and The Scarlet Letter
- 2 Gossip, Hearsay, and the Character Exception: Reputation on Trial in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and R v Rowton
- 3 Defamation of Character: Anthony Trollope and the Law of Libel
- 4 Dignity, Disclosure, and the Right to Privacy: The Strange Characters of Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray
- 5 The English Dreyfus Case: Status as Character in an Illiberal Age
- Works Cited
- Index