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Reading for the law = British literary history and gender advocacy /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reading for the law/ Christine L. Krueger.
Reminder of title:	British literary history and gender advocacy /
Author:	Krueger, Christine L.
Published:	Charlottesville, Va. :University of Virginia Press, : 2010.,
Description:	1 online resource ([xiii], 301 p.).
Subject:	Feminist jurisprudence - Great Britain. -
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9780813928975 (electronic bk.)

Reading for the law = British literary history and gender advocacy /
Krueger, Christine L.

Reading for the lawBritish literary history and gender advocacy /[electronic resource] :Christine L. Krueger. - Charlottesville, Va. :University of Virginia Press,2010. - 1 online resource ([xiii], 301 p.). - Victorian literature and culture series. - Victorian literature and culture series..

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.

Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history -- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.

ISBN: 9780813928975 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

948073
Feminist jurisprudence
--Great Britain.

LC Class. No.: PR830.L43 / K78 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 823.009/3554

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