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Literature and legal discourse : equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad / Dieter Paul Polloczek.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0511006241
  • 9780511006241
  • 0511033044
  • 9780511033049
  • 0511117752
  • 9780511117756
  • 9780521652513
  • 0521652510
  • 9780511485268
  • 0511485263
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature and legal discourse.DDC classification:
  • 823.009/355 21
LOC classification:
  • PR830.L43 P65 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 17.90
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels -- 3. Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules -- 4. Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House -- 5. A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" -- 6. Conclusion.
Review: "Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and includes texts from Sterne, Bentham, Dickens and Conrad."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-263) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels -- 3. Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules -- 4. Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House -- 5. A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" -- 6. Conclusion.

"Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and includes texts from Sterne, Bentham, Dickens and Conrad."--Jacket.

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