Staging the Trials of Modernism : : Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness / / Dale Barleben.
In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce. By tracing the relationships between the lite...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (184 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction - Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture, and the Interiority of the Civil Subject
- 1. Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer's Charter, and Oscar Wilde's Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism
- 2. Law's Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad
- 3. High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce
- 4. Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity
- Notes
- Works Consulted
- Index