Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. /
Mansfield Wright, Nicole,
Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. / Nicole Mansfield Wright. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 -- 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 -- Introduction : A Neglected Inheritance -- Part I : Downward mobility and the safety net of the law -- Part II : The Pen as a weapon against reform of the law -- Epilogue : Abiding the Law.
"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 their work to reshape and manipulate public perceptions of who merits legal agency: the right to initiate a lawsuit, serve as a witness, and seek counsel from a lawyer"--
9781421433752 (electronic bk.) 1421433753 (electronic bk.)
1700-1899
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Law and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Law and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
British literature--History and criticism.--18th century
British literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Littérature et société--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siècle.
Littérature et société--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Littérature britannique--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
Littérature britannique--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
British literature.
Law and literature.
Literature and society.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR448.S64
820.9355
Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel. / Nicole Mansfield Wright. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 -- 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 -- Introduction : A Neglected Inheritance -- Part I : Downward mobility and the safety net of the law -- Part II : The Pen as a weapon against reform of the law -- Epilogue : Abiding the Law.
"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 their work to reshape and manipulate public perceptions of who merits legal agency: the right to initiate a lawsuit, serve as a witness, and seek counsel from a lawyer"--
9781421433752 (electronic bk.) 1421433753 (electronic bk.)
1700-1899
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Literature and society--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Law and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Law and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
British literature--History and criticism.--18th century
British literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Littérature et société--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siècle.
Littérature et société--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--18e siècle.
Droit et littérature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Littérature britannique--Histoire et critique.--18e siècle
Littérature britannique--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
British literature.
Law and literature.
Literature and society.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR448.S64
820.9355