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  title info:
    title: Character
    sub title: writing and reputation in Victorian law and literature
  name:
    name part: Frank, Cathrine O.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 245 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Why would Hawthorne and Eliot grant their fallen women an anachronistic right to silence that could only worsen their punishment? Why did Bronte and Gaskell find gossip such a useful source of information when lawyers excluded it as hearsay? How did Trollope's work as an editor influence his preoccupation throughout his novels with libel? Drawing on a range of primary sources including novels, Victorian periodical literature, legislative debate, case law and legal treatise, Cathrine O. Frank traces the ways conventions of literary characterization mingled with character-centered legal developments to produce a jurisprudential theory of character that extends beyond the legal profession. She explores how key categories and representational strategies for imagining individual personhood also defined communities and mediated relations within them, in life and in fiction.
  table of contents: Introduction: Character-building: narrative theory, narrative jurisprudence, and the idea of character -- Incriminating character: revisiting the right to silence in Adam Bede and The scarlet letter -- Gossip, hearsay, and the characte exception: reputation on trial in The tenant of Wildfell Hall and R v Rowton -- Defamation of characterz; Anthony Trollope and the law of libel -- Dignity, disclosure, and the right of privacy: the strange characters of Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Greay -- The English Dreyfus Case: status as character in the illiberal age.
  note: Cathrine O. Frank.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-237) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Character in literature
  subject:
    topic: Law in literature
  subject:
    topic: Law and literature
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  classification: PR468.L38 F73 2022
  classification: 820.93/554 820.93/53
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
  identifier: 1474485707
  identifier: 9781474485708
  identifier: 9781474485739
  identifier: 9781474485722
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210817
    record change date: 20220915155408.5
    record identifier: in00004584385