An edition of Reading for the law (2010)

Reading for the law

British literary history and gender advocacy

Reading for the law
Christine L. Krueger, Christin ...
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An edition of Reading for the law (2010)

Reading for the law

British literary history and gender advocacy

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Cover of: Reading for the law
Reading for the law: British literary history and gender advocacy
2010, University of Virginia Press
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Cover of: Reading for the Law
Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy
2010, University of Virginia Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy: realism, evidence, and historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch
Witchcraft precedents as literary history: from the discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale
The historical turn in witchcraft literature: from Francis Hutchinson's enlightenment historiography to Elizabeth Gaskell's historical realism
Theories and histories of agency: Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman
Agency, equity, publicity: narratives of compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports
Credibility: gendered testimony in fiction and indecent assault depositions
Women's legal literacy and the return of pro se representation: from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon
Concealing women's mens rea: literary advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers
The secret agency of juries: forging oppositional consensus against sodomy prosecution.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Charlottesville
Series
Victorian literature and culture series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.009/3554
Library of Congress
PR830.L43 K78 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23668396M
ISBN 13
9780813928937, 9780813928975
LCCN
2009032569

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OL4277638W

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