The transatlantic gothic novel and the law, 1790-1860
By: by Bridget M. Marshall
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780754669951; 9781409419655
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : legal tangles and gothic trappings; title: Things are not as they should be : the legal system in William Godwin's Caleb Williams; title: Questioning the evidence of bodies and texts in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; title: Reading unreadable texts and bodies : Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly; title: Slave narrative and the gothic novel : Hannah Crafts's the Bondwoman's narrative.