Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature

ISBN: 9780521100311 出版年：1999 页码：244 Kieran Dolin Cambridge University Press

Acknowledgements 1. Narrative forms and normative worlds 2. The modern Western nomos 3. True testimony and the foundation of nomos - The Heart of Midlothian 4. Reformist critique in the mid-Victorian 'legal novel' - Bleak House 5. Representation, inheritance and anti-reformism in the 'legal novel' - Orley Farm 6. Power, chance and the rule of law - Billy Budd, Sailor 7. From sympathetic criminal to imperial law-giver - Lord Jim 8. Freedom, uncertainty and diversity - the critique of imperialist law in A Passage to India 9. Settling out of court Notes Index.