Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521623322)

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 new area of study, as literature has influenced popular understanding of law. Utilizing legal and literary theory, Kieran Dolin examines the interplay between legal discourse and the novel in the century between Walter Scott and E. M. Forster. This comprehensive study draws on legal and literary theory to trace this important convergence of disciplines in a series of canonical Victorian and Modernist texts.

Author: Kieran Dolin
ISBN-10: 0521623324
ISBN-13: 9780521623322
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/13/1999
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d