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 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes
- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt
- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind
- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative
- Modern responsibilities
- Contents; Introduction; ONE: Organizing Crime: Conduct and Character in Oliver Twist; Prologue to George Eliot's Crimes; TWO: "To Fix Our Minds on That Certainty": Minding Consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt; THREE: Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the Crime in Mind; FOUR: James Fitzjames Stephen and the Responsibilities of Narrative; Conclusion: Modern Responsibilities; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
- Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes
- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt
- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind
- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative
- Modern responsibilities