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:
- Introduction : A Neglected Inheritance
- Part I : Downward mobility and the safety net of the law
- "Bad citizens" and "insolent foreigners" : Tobias Smollett's elite outsiders and the suspension of legal agency
- Covert critique : genteel victimhood in Charlotte Smith's fictions of dispossession
- Part II : The Pen as a weapon against reform of the law
- 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.