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The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel
This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirm them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.
| Author(s) | By Lisa Rodensky (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, Wellesley College). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 286 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 13 Nov 2003 |
| Availability | POD |
This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirm them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.
Lisa Rodensky is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College.
