{"product_id":"reading-for-the-law-christine-l-krueger-9780813928937","title":"Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaking her title from the British term for legal study, \"to read for the law,\" Christine L. Krueger asks how \"reading for the law\" as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. She argues that a multidisciplinary \"historical narrative jurisprudence\" strengthens narrative legal theorists' claims for the transformative powers of stories by replacing an ahistorical opposition between literature and law with a history of their interdependence, and their embeddedness in print culture. Focusing on gender and feminist advocacy in the long nineteenth century, \u003ci\u003eReading for the Law\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of \"outsider jurisprudence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKrueger develops this argument across discussions of key jurisprudential concepts: precedent, agency, testimony, and motive. She draws from a wide range of literary, legal, and historical sources, from the early modern period through the Victorian age, as well as from contemporary literary, feminist, and legal theory. Topics considered include the legacy of witchcraft prosecutions, the evolution of the Reasonable Man standard of evidence in lunacy inquiries, the fate of female witnesses and \u003ci\u003epro se\u003c\/i\u003e litigants, advocacy for female prisoners and infanticide defendants, and defense strategies for men accused of indecent assault and sodomy. The saliency of the nineteenth-century British literary culture stems in part from its place in a politico-legal tradition that produces the very conditions of narrative legal theorists' aspirations for meaningful social transformation in modern, multicultural democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine L. Krueger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813928931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813928937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2010 pg. 264","brand":"Christine L. Krueger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44059831730431,"sku":"9780813928937","price":43.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_685ec42d-e975-423d-a0af-4b56bc08a5d8.jpg?v=1685060581","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reading-for-the-law-christine-l-krueger-9780813928937","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}