| The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel Contributor(s): Rodensky, Lisa (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0195150740 ISBN-13: 9780195150742 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 823.809 |
| LCCN: 2002015617 |
| Lexile Measure: 1500 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.1" W x 9.38" (0.91 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |