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    The crime in mind : criminal responsibility and the Victorian novel (2003)
    New York : Oxford University Press
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    ISBN: 0195185242 , 9780198034353 , 0198034350 , 9781280835582 , 9780195150742 , 0195150740 , 9780195150735 , 0195150732 , 1280482214 , 9781280482212 , 1280835583
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Keywords: Electronic books ; English fiction History and criticism ; 19th century ; Crime in literature ; Legal stories, English History and criticism ; Law and literature History ; 19th century ; Criminal liability in literature ; Responsibility in literature ; Criminals in literature ; English fiction History and criticism. 19th century ; Crime in literature. ; Legal stories, English History and criticism. ; Law and literature History 19th century. ; Criminal liability in literature. ; Responsibility in literature. ; Criminals in literature. ; English fiction History and criticism ; 19th century ; Crime in literature ; Criminal liability in literature ; Criminals in literature ; English fiction ; Law and literature ; Legal stories, English ; Responsibility in literature ; Englisch ; Kriminalität ; Roman ; Electronic books Electronic books ; Electronic books. ; Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History ; Englisch ; Roman ; Kriminalität ; Geschichte 1837-1901 ; Englisch ; Roman ; Kriminalität ; Geschichte 1837-1901
    Abstract: This study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. Connecting novelists with jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers new ways of thinking about the Victorian period
    Description / Table of Contents: Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes -- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt -- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind -- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative -- Modern responsibilities
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Introduction; ONE: Organizing Crime: Conduct and Character in Oliver Twist; Prologue to George Eliot's Crimes; TWO: "To Fix Our Minds on That Certainty": Minding Consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt; THREE: Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the Crime in Mind; FOUR: James Fitzjames Stephen and the Responsibilities of Narrative; Conclusion: Modern Responsibilities; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
    Description / Table of Contents: Organizing crime : conduct and character in Oliver Twist : prologue to George Eliot's crimes -- "To fix our minds on that consequence" : minding consequences in Adam Bede and Felix Holt -- Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, and the crime in mind -- James Fitzjames Stephen and the responsibilities of narrative -- Modern responsibilities
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-267) and index
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