Character : writing and reputation in Victorian law and literature /

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 pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Frank, Cathrine O. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022].
Series:	Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Character in literature. Law in literature. Law and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.

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.