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Literature and legal discourse : equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad
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Literature and legal discourse : equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad

Author: Dieter Polloczek
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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"Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and includes texts from Sterne, Bentham,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Dieter Polloczek
ISBN: 0521652510 9780521652513
OCLC Number: 40200401
Description: viii, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
2. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels --
3. Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules --
4. Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House --
5. A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the "Narcissus" --
6. Conclusion.
Responsibility: Dieter Paul Polloczek.
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Explores the intersection between law and literature in the eighteenth century and modernist period.  Read more...

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