Novel judgements: legal theory as fiction /
Legal theory as fiction
William P. MacNeil.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- xvii, 234 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.
Prolexomenon : towards a novel legal theory of the novel as legal theory -- John Austin or Jane Austen? : the province of jurisprudence determined in Pride and prejudice -- Jousting with Bentham : utility, morality and ethics in Ivanhoe's tournament of law -- The monstrous body of the law : Wollstonecraft vs. Shelley -- Hawthorne's haunted house of law : the romance of American legal realism in The house of the seven gables -- In Boz we trust! : Bleak house's (re)imagination of trusteeship -- Two on a guillotine? : courts and 'crits' in A tale of two cities -- Beyond governmentality : the question of justice in Great expectations -- A jurisprudential postscript : century's close and the end of of the meta-narrative of law.
English fiction--History and criticism. Law in literature. American fiction--History and criticism. Law and literature--History Culture and law. Sociological jurisprudence. American fiction. Culture and law. English fiction. Law and literature. Law in literature. Sociological jurisprudence. Prosa. Rechtswissenschaft. Literatur. Englisch--Literatur. Literatur. Amerikanisches Englisch. Englisch. Recht.