1st Edition

Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction

By Joanne Bridget Simpson Copyright 2023
232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

The law holds up a mirror to society and reflects that society and its ongoing preoccupations. This book establishes legal interpretation as a mode of literary interpretation, contextualising the opinions and sociological background of literature within the context of the law of its period and examines the inherent role of the law in the construction of the narrative in the literature of the... Read more

1. A Trying Situation: Narrative Structure and the Law

2. Order in the Courts: The Writer and the Legal Applicability Debate

3. Prosecuting the Poor: Victorian Poverty and the Poor Laws

4. Bad and Mad: Defending the Criminal Woman

 

Biography

Joanne Simpson completed her PhD in English at the University of Ulster, after completing a masters in law at Queens University Belfast, and undergraduate at the University of Ulster. She is an associate academic at the University of Ulster writing in the area of law and literature. Joanne currently works with an international legislative consultancy, and she sits on the board of the Irish Centre for European Law, Trinity College, Dublin, advising on European law, human rights, and financial services regulation.