The Crime in Mind Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel

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• Author(s)
  Lisa Rodensky
• Publisher
  Oxford University Press
• Format
  PDF
• Print ISBN
  9780195150742, 0195150740
• eText ISBN
  9780195150742, 0195150740
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  This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel’s particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law’s definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.