Cultural lives of law Riding the black ram : law, literature, and gender
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0804756805
ISBN 13
9780804756808
DDC
823.009
Category
Women and the Law
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Publication Year
2010
Publisher
Pages
xxv, 168 pages
Subject
Women and the law
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Abstract
"Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This probing new work analyzes a series of literary, legal, and historical texts to demonstrate the persistence of certain gender stereotypes, "--Jacket.
Description
Contents:
"Termes queinte of lawe" and quaint fantasies of literature : Chaucer's Man of law and Wife of Bath -- Public affairs and juridical intimacies : seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French and English women novelists -- Black letters and black rams : law, gender, and the novel in early eighteenth-century England -- How to tell a story that might prevent a hanging : Mary Blandy, parricide, 1752 -- Statues, statutes, and queens on trial.
"Termes queinte of lawe" and quaint fantasies of literature : Chaucer's Man of law and Wife of Bath -- Public affairs and juridical intimacies : seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French and English women novelists -- Black letters and black rams : law, gender, and the novel in early eighteenth-century England -- How to tell a story that might prevent a hanging : Mary Blandy, parricide, 1752 -- Statues, statutes, and queens on trial.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-160) and index.
Number of Copies
1
