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Literature and legal discourse : = equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Literature and legal discourse :/ Dieter Paul Polloczek.
Reminder of title:	equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad /
remainder title:	Literature & Legal Discourse
Author:	Polloczek, Dieter,
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Legal stories, English - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485268
ISBN:	9780511485268 (ebook)

Literature and legal discourse : = equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad /
Polloczek, Dieter,

Literature and legal discourse :equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad /Literature & Legal DiscourseDieter Paul Polloczek. - 1 online resource (viii, 269 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction --1.

The intersection between law and literature is a developing area in literary studies. Existing work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. In Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad Dieter Polloczek develops this idea by comparing the notion of equity, or ethics, in fiction with its legal equivalent. He shows how the novel, with its increasing social scope and formal sophistication, provided a means of transmitting, questioning and refining society's traditions, values and modes of self-questioning. Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions like substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalisation. Pollozcek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.

ISBN: 9780511485268 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

948076
Legal stories, English
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PR830.L43 / P65 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 823.009/355

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