Cross-examinations of law and literature : Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville
- 作者: Thomas, Brook
- 其他題名:
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- 出版: Cambridge ;New York : Cambridge University Press
- 版本:1st paperback ed
- 叢書名: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
- 主題: American fiction--History and criticism--19th century , Law in literature
- ISBN: 0521330815 、 0521409705 (pbk.): US$22.95
- 資料類型: 圖書
- 內容註: Cover title: Cross examination of law and literature
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- 系統號: 005143414 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America. The lens reflects both ways, and we learn as much about the literature in the context of contemporary legal concerns as we do about the legal ideologies that the fiction subverts or reveals. Successive chapters deal with Cooper's Pioneers and Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables (property law and the image of the judiciary), Melville's 'Benito Cereno' and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (slavery), Melville's White Jacket, Pierre and 'Bartleby' (worker exploitation or wage slavery), The Confidence-Man (contracts), and finally, 'Billy Budd', which examines a number of issues illustrative of the triumph of legal formalism after the Civil War.