1st Edition
Law, Literature and the Power of Reading Literalism and Photography in the Nineteenth Century
By Suneel Mehmi
Copyright 2022
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
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At the intersection of law, literature and history, this book interrogates how a dominant contemporary idea of law emerged out of specific ideas of reading in the nineteenth century. Reading shapes our identities. How we read shapes who we are. Reading also shapes our conceptions of what the law is, because the law is also a practice of reading. Focusing on the works of key Victorian writers... Read more
Introduction
1. Representation of photography, literalist reading and 'the absence of higher truths' in art
2. Photography’s 'fatal resemblances': reading the invisibility of individuality and truth in the work of Wilkie Collins
3. Representation and reading against photographic details in the work of Henry James
4. Photograph albums in fiction: the illegitimate plots and counter-narratives of the photograph-book
Conclusion
Biography
Suneel Mehmi is an independent, early career researcher.
