Defending privilege : rights, status, and legal peril in the British novel /
Wright, Nicole Mansfield,1982-author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Bad citizens" and "insolent foreigners" : Smollett's elite outsiders and the suspense of legal agency -- Couverte critique : genteel victimhood in Charlotte Smith's fictions of dispossession -- Letters of the law : ambivalent advocacy and speaking for the voiceless in Walter Scott's Redgauntlet -- "Masters of passion and tongue" : white "eye-witnesses" and fear of black testimony in the pro-slavery novel -- Epilogue : abiding the law.
Literature and society
Literature and society
Law and literature
Law and literature
British literature
British literature