TY - BOOK AU - MacNeil,William P. TI - Novel judgements: legal theory as fiction SN - 9780415459143 (hbk) U1 - 823.8093554 PY - 2012/// CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England], New York PB - Routledge KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Law in literature KW - American fiction KW - Law and literature KW - History KW - Culture and law KW - Sociological jurisprudence KW - Prosa KW - Rechtswissenschaft KW - Literatur KW - Englisch KW - Amerikanisches Englisch KW - Recht N1 - 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 ER -