The crime in mind : criminal responsibility and the Victorian novel
This study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. Connecting novelists with jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers new w...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York : Oxford University Press,
2003
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | EBSCOhost eBook Collection
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| Schlagworte: | Electronic books English fiction Legal stories, English Law and literature Crime in literature. Criminal liability in literature. Responsibility in literature. Criminals in literature. Englisch Kriminalität mehr... |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource |
| Zusammenfassung: | This study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. Connecting novelists with jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers new ways of thinking about the Victorian period |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index |
| Beschreibung: | Online-Ressource |
| ISBN: | 0195185242 9780195185249 9780198034353 0198034350 9781280835582 1280835583 9780195150742 0195150740 9780195150735 0195150732 1280482214 9781280482212 |