MacNeil, William P.,

Novel judgements: legal theory as fiction / Legal theory as fiction William P. MacNeil. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2012. - xvii, 234 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.

Prolexomenon : towards a novel legal theory of the novel as legal theory -- John Austin or Jane Austen? : the province of jurisprudence determined in Pride and prejudice -- Jousting with Bentham : utility, morality and ethics in Ivanhoe's tournament of law -- The monstrous body of the law : Wollstonecraft vs. Shelley -- Hawthorne's haunted house of law : the romance of American legal realism in The house of the seven gables -- In Boz we trust! : Bleak house's (re)imagination of trusteeship -- Two on a guillotine? : courts and 'crits' in A tale of two cities -- Beyond governmentality : the question of justice in Great expectations -- A jurisprudential postscript : century's close and the end of of the meta-narrative of law.

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English fiction--History and criticism.
Law in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.
Law and literature--History
Culture and law.
Sociological jurisprudence.
American fiction.
Culture and law.
English fiction.
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Sociological jurisprudence.
Prosa.
Rechtswissenschaft.
Literatur.
Englisch--Literatur.
Literatur.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Englisch.
Recht.

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