The transatlantic Gothic novel and the law, 1790-1860
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
2011
Publisher
Subject
Horror tales, English-History and criticism;Horror tales, American-History and criticism;Gothic revival (Literature)-Great Britain;Gothic revival (Literature)-United States;Law in literature
Description
(SBN) 9780754669951 (hbk.) :||(GEN) Formerly CIP.||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references and index.||(CON) Introduction : legal tangles and gothic trappings -- Things are not as they should be : the legal system in William Godwin's Caleb Williams -- Questioning the evidence of bodies and texts in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Reading unreadable texts and bodies : Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly -- Slave narrative and the gothic novel : Hannah Crafts's the Bondwoman's narrative.
Biblio Notes
viii, 190 p. ; 24 cm. (hbk)
Number of Copies
1