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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.
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