Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel / Nicole Mansfield Wright.
"This study is about the intersection of law and literature in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The author explores how in a turbulent era of political revolution, the abolition of slavery, and increasing class and gender mobility, British literary authors used the...
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2020.
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Table of Contents:
- "Bad citizens" and "insolent foreigners" : Smollett's elite outsiders and the suspense of legal agency
- Couverte critique : genteel victimhood in Charlotte Smith's fictions of dispossession
- Letters of the law : ambivalent advocacy and speaking for the voiceless in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet
- "Masters of passion and tongue" : white "eye-witnesses" and fear of black testimony in the pro-slavery novel
- Epilogue : abiding the law.