Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Christine L Krueger
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Description for Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
Hardcover. Asks how 'reading for the law' as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. This title demonstrates the relevance of literary history to feminist jurisprudence and suggests how literary history might contribute to other forms of 'outsider jurisprudence'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; HBJD; HBL; HBTB; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
Taking her title from the British term for legal study, 'to read for the law', Christine L. Krueger asks how 'reading for the law' as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. She argues that a multidisciplinary 'historical narrative jurisprudence' strengthens narrative legal theorists' claims for the transformative powers of stories by replacing an ahistorical opposition between literature and law with a history of their interdependence, and their embeddedness in print culture. Focusing on gender and feminist advocacy in the long nineteenth century, ""Reading for the Law"" demonstrates the relevance of literary history ... Read more
Taking her title from the British term for legal study, 'to read for the law', Christine L. Krueger asks how 'reading for the law' as literary history contributes to the progressive educational purposes of the Law and Literature movement. She argues that a multidisciplinary 'historical narrative jurisprudence' strengthens narrative legal theorists' claims for the transformative powers of stories by replacing an ahistorical opposition between literature and law with a history of their interdependence, and their embeddedness in print culture. Focusing on gender and feminist advocacy in the long nineteenth century, ""Reading for the Law"" demonstrates the relevance of literary history ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928937
SKU
V9780813928937
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About Christine L Krueger
Christine L. Krueger is associate professor of English at Marquette University. She is the author of The Reader's Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse and essays on Victorian fiction, gender, literature, and law.
Reviews for Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
"Reading for the Law is a dynamic, learned, and powerful intervention into an important interdisciplinary field of inquiry, undertaken by a scholar with deep knowledge of the key discourses she critiques and a consistently engaged point of view, that comprehensively situates its particular arguments in dialogue with the field of law and literature as it has evolved over the last ... Read more