Subversion and Sympathy 1st Edition Gender, Law, and the British Novel

Description

• Author(s)
  Martha C. Nussbaum; Alison L. LaCroix
• Publisher
  Oxford University Press
• Format
  PDF
• Print ISBN
  9780199812042, 0199812047
• eText ISBN
  9780199812042, 0199812047
• Edition
  1st
• Copyright
• Details
  This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope. Approaching the topic from a variety of backgrounds, the contributors reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by displaying a range of ways in which literature and law can illuminate one another and in which the conversation between them can illuminate deeper human issues with which both disciplines are concerned. Their chapters shed light on a range of gender-related issues, from inheritance to money-lending to illegitimacy, but also make an important methodological contribution by displaying (and discussing) a range of methodological perspectives that exemplify the breadth and range of this discipline, which links history, gender studies, philosophy, literary studies, and law.