1st Edition
The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860
By Bridget M. Marshall
Copyright 2011
198 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
214 Pages
by
Routledge
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Tracing the use of legal themes in the gothic novel, Bridget M. Marshall shows these devices reflect an outpouring of anxiety about the nature of justice. On both sides of the Atlantic, novelists like William Godwin, Mary Shelley, Charles Brockden Brown, and Hannah Crafts question the foundations of the Anglo-American justice system through their portrayals of criminal and judicial procedures and... Read more
Contents: 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 Craft's The Bondwoman's Narrative; Closing arguments; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Bridget M. Marshall is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA.
'Marshall’s study deserves to be read by aficionados as wells as new-comers to the genre of the Gothic. Her transnational exploration can serve as an important pointer towards future innovative studies in the field of Gothic criticism.' Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
