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Defending privilege [electronic resource] : rights, status, and legal peril in the British Novel / Nicole Mansfield Wright

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Wright, Nicole Mansfield, 1982-
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Physical Description
xii, 210 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents
"Bad citizens" and "insolent foreigners" : Smollett's elite outsiders and the suspense of legal agency -- Couverte critique : genteel victimhood in Charlotte Smith's fictions of dispossession -- "Masters of passion and tongue" : white "eye-witnesses" and fear of black testimony in the pro-slavery novel -- Letters of the law : ambivalent advocacy and speaking for the voiceless in Redgauntlet -- Epilogue : abiding the law.
Summary
"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"--
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ISBN
9781421433738 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
1421433737 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
9781421433745 (softcover ; acid-free paper)
1421433745 (softcover ; acid-free paper)
1421433753 (ebook)
9781421433752 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-202) and index.
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