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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2009
      13 June 1999
      ISBN:
      9780511549342
      9780521623322
      9780521100311
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549342
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 244 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.36kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Literary Theory, English Literature 1900-1945
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    Law and literature have been two of the most powerful discourses in the construction of social reality. The relationship between the two has emerged as a vital area of study, as literary representation has proved immensely influential in framing popular understanding of law. In Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature Kieran Dolin examines the dialectical interplay between legal discourse and the novel in the century between Walter Scott and E. M. Forster, the period when the institution of the law was undergoing radical reform and the novel was at the peak of its cultural power. Dolin's comprehensive study argues that this cultural power is attributable in part to the novel's critical engagement with the law. His study draws on legal and literary theory to trace this important convergence of disciplines in a series of canonical Victorian and Modernist texts.

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    "Dolin's analyses are insightful and thoroughly researched. They will undoubtedly inspire others to return to familiar texts, and to look for individual instances in which the law and literature serve as dynamic forces that play off one another in the construction of society and culture." George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, Kurt Neumann, William Rainey Harper College

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