Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries
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- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
28 July 2020
Summary
By accessing penal history through the mediator of individual memory authors can be seen to depict the cumulative dialogue between the English common law and its cultural representations across historical time. Offering legal readings of works by authors including Thomas Hardy, Charles Brockden Brown, Charles Dickens, Samuel Richardson, George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Alfred Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte, Robert Browning, Henry Fielding and Sir Walter Scott; this book explores this litera…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781474450102 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1474450105 |
| Author: | Erin Sheley |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 28 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 572g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities |
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Erin Sheley
Erin Sheley is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Her legal research considers how the law should account for subjectivity in measuring and punishing criminal and tort harm. Her work has appeared in such journals as the North Carolina Law Review, the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, the Wake Forest Law Review, and the Indiana Law Review. Her literary scholarship has appeared in the Byron Journal, the Southern Literary Journal, Law and Literature, and Law, Culture and the Humanities. She holds an A.B. and J.D. from Harvard University and a PhD in English from the George Washington University.
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