Literature and legal discourse
Subtitle: equity and ethics from Sterne to Conrad
By: Dieter Paul Polloczek.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Legal stories, English -- History and criticism.; English fiction -- History and criticism.; Equity -- Great Britain -- History.; Discourse analysis, Literary.; Ethics in literature.; Law and literature.
Description: "Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions such as substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes, and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalization. Polloczek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and includes texts from Sterne, Bentham, Dickens and Conrad."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-263)  and index.