Reading for the law
Subtitle: British literary history and gender advocacy
By: Christine L. Krueger.
Series: Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813928937; 9780813928975
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy: realism, evidence, and historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch; title: Witchcraft precedents as literary history: from the discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale; title: The historical turn in witchcraft literature: from Francis Hutchinson's enlightenment historiography to Elizabeth Gaskell's historical realism; title: Theories and histories of agency: Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman; title: Agency, equity, publicity: narratives of compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports; title: Credibility: gendered testimony in fiction and indecent assault depositions; title: Women's legal literacy and the return of pro se representation: from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon; title: Concealing women's mens rea: literary advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers; title: The secret agency of juries: forging oppositional consensus against sodomy prosecution.