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050 00 $aPS374.L34$bM63 2001
082 00 $a813/.409355$221
100 1 $aModdelmog, William E.,$d1961-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00039850
245 10 $aReconstituting authority :$bAmerican fiction in the province of the law, 1880-1920 /$cby William E. Moddelmog.
260 $aIowa City, IA :$bUniversity of Iowa City,$c[2000], ©2000.
263 $a0101
300 $ax, 276 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Professionalism in Law and Literature --$gPt. 1.$tThe (Mis)Rule of Law.$gCh. 1.$tThe "Official" Narratives of William Dean Howells.$gCh. 2.$tHelen Hunt Jackson and the Romance of Indian Nationhood.$gCh. 3.$tNarrating Citizenship in Pauline Hopkins's Contending Forces --$gPt. 2.$tThe Authority of Property.$gCh. 4.$tCharles Chesnutt's Fictions of Ownership.$gCh. 5.$tPrivacy and Subjectivity in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth.$gCh. 6.$tTheodore Dreiser's Progressive Nostalgia.
520 1 $a"In Reconstituting Authority, William Moddelmog explores the ways in which American law and literature converged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through close readings of significant texts from the era, he reveals not only how novelists invoked specific legal principles and ideals in their fictions but also how they sought to reconceptualize the boundaries of law and literature in ways that transformed previous versions of both legal and literary authority.".
520 8 $a"Moddelmog does not assume a sharp distinction between literary and legal institutions and practices but shows how writers imagined the two fields as engaged in the same cultural process.
520 8 $aHe argues that because the law was instrumental in setting the terms by which concepts such as race, gender, nationhood, ownership, and citizenship were defined in the nineteenth century, authors challenging those definitions had to engage the law on its own terrain: to place their work in a dialogue with the law by telling stories that were already authorized (though perhaps suppressed) by legal institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLegal stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101032
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aLaw and literature$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aLaw and literature$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAuthority in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008614
650 0 $aLaw in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85075309
852 00 $bglx$hPS374.L34$iM63 2001