Reading for the law
Subtitle: British literary history and gender advocacy
By: Christine L. Krueger
Series: Victorian literature and culture series; Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780813928937; 9780813928975
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-298) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history; title: Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : 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 Enlightenment historiography to historical realism; title: Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman; title: Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports; title: Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault; title: Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon; title: Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers; title: The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.