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Reading for the law

by Krueger, Christine L.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Victorian literature and culture series Published by : University of Virginia Press, (Charlottesville :) Physical details: [xiii], 301 p.
Subject(s): English literature -- History and criticism. | Legal stories, English -- History and criticism. | Law and literature -- Great Britain -- History. | Law in literature. | Female offenders in literature. | Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain -- History. | Sex discrimination against women -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History. | Feminist jurisprudence -- Great Britain. | Electronic books.
Year: 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history -- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : 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 Enlightenment historiography to historical realism -- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman -- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports -- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault -- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon -- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers -- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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