Riding the black ram
Subtitle: law, literature, and gender
By: Susan Sage Heinzelman.
Series: The cultural lives of law; Cultural lives of law
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804756808
Subjects: English fiction -- History and criticism; Law and literature -- England -- History; Women and literature -- England -- History; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History; Law in literature; Women in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Termes queinte of lawe" and quaint fantasies of literature : Chaucer's Man of law and Wife of Bath; title: Public affairs and juridical intimacies : seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French and English women novelists; title: Black letters and black rams : law, gender, and the novel in early eighteenth-century England; title: How to tell a story that might prevent a hanging : Mary Blandy, parricide, 1752; title: Statues, statutes, and queens on trial.