Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England
Autor Ian Warden Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 feb 2014
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781849462945
ISBN-10: 1849462941
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1849462941
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Among the texts analysed are; the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act, the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti.
Notă biografică
Ian Ward is Professor of Law at Newcastle University, and the author of a number of books on law, literature and history including 'Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives' (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 'Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination' (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The English Constitution: Myths and Realities' (Hart Publishing, 2004), 'Law, Text, Terror' (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and most recently 'Law and the Brontes' (Palgrave, 2011).
Cuprins
Introduction: Dark ShapesAngels in the House At Home with the Dombeys The Disease of Reading Pleasing and Teaching 1 Criminal Conversations One Person in Law Newcome v Lord Highgate Carlyle v Carlyle Oh Reader! 2 Fashionable Crimes The Sensational Moment Fashionable Crimes Mrs Mellish's Marriages The Shame of Miss Braddon 3 Unnatural Mothers The Precious Quality of Truthfulness Hardwicke's Children R v Sorrel The Lost and the Saved 4 Fallen Angels Walking the Streets The Murder of Nancy Sikes Contemplating Jenny Because Men Made the Laws
Recenzii
Ward successfully provides a legal and legislative context to texts that both shaped and reflected the Victorian psyche...this book would be an excellent addition to an academic library as it has broad appeal to those studying law, literature, history, and gender studies.
...Ward's book provides law students and scholars alike not only with an interesting exploration of mid-Victorian fiction and legal reform, but also an insight into how literature may be used to challenge existing scripts and engender alternative ways of viewing and thinking about the law's attempt to regulate female sexuality.
Through the interweaving of issues of law, violence, sex, criminality and misogyny, Ward produces a book 'about' much more than a nation's salaciousness.
...Ward's book provides law students and scholars alike not only with an interesting exploration of mid-Victorian fiction and legal reform, but also an insight into how literature may be used to challenge existing scripts and engender alternative ways of viewing and thinking about the law's attempt to regulate female sexuality.
Through the interweaving of issues of law, violence, sex, criminality and misogyny, Ward produces a book 'about' much more than a nation's salaciousness.
Descriere
By analysing relevant statues alongside the literature of the time, Ian Ward investigates Victorian anxieties about the 'condition' of its women, concentrating in particular on four 'crimes': adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution.