Reading for the law British literary history and gender advocacy /
| Основен автор: | Krueger, Christine L. |
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| Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2010.
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| Серия: |
Victorian literature and culture series.
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| Предмети: | |
| Онлайн достъп: |
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
Съдържание:
- Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history
- Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch
- Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale
- The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism
- Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman
- Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports
- Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault
- Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon
- Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers
- The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.