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001 2009032569
003 DLC
005 20090815131543.0
008 090814s2010 vau b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2009032569
020 $a9780813928937 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a9780813928975 (e-book)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aPR830.L43$bK78 2010
082 00 $a823.009/3554$222
100 1 $aKrueger, Christine L.
245 10 $aReading for the law :$bBritish literary history and gender advocacy /$cChristine L. Krueger.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2010.
263 $a1005
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aVictorian literature and culture series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aHistoriographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy: realism, evidence, and historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch -- Witchcraft precedents as literary history: from the discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale -- The historical turn in witchcraft literature: from Francis Hutchinson's enlightenment historiography to Elizabeth Gaskell's historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency: Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity: narratives of compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Credibility: gendered testimony in fiction and indecent assault depositions -- Women's legal literacy and the return of pro se representation: from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: literary advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries: forging oppositional consensus against sodomy prosecution.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLegal stories, English$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLaw and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aLaw in literature.
650 0 $aFemale offenders in literature.
650 0 $aWomen$xLegal status, laws, etc.$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aSex discrimination against women$xLaw and legislation$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aFeminist jurisprudence$zGreat Britain.