This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.

About the Author
Lisa Rodensky is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College.

Reviews
A consistently intelligent study.... The value of this thoughtful book lies not just in adding to our understanding of the relationships between law and literature, but to debates about the developing Victorian notions of the inner self and of personal identity. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780195150742
Author Lisa Rodensky
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 414g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 234mm * 18mm