The Crime in Mind : Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel.
Title:
The Crime in Mind : Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel.
Author:
Rodensky, Lisa.
ISBN:
9780198034353
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents:
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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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