Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and History.
Edited by Margot Finn, Michael Lobban and Jenny Bourne Taylor.
Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2010.
Verlagsanzeige (mit ToC): “This innovative collection of essays by prominent scholars from the disciplines of literary studies, history and law explores the many ways in which notions of legtitimacy were shaped and contested in Georgian and Victorian Britain. It probes the difficulties of drawing boundaries between the legitimate and the illegitimate which continued to trouble Victorian society and which were explored in novels such as Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.
The essays in this collection show how dilemmas over legitimacy unsettled families by challenging clear lines of inheritence; they also unsettles society, as forgers and imposters defrauded individuals, estates and institutions through widely publicised social performances which fascinated both contemporary culture and called into question the idea of legitimacy itself”.
U. a.: Unauthorised Identities: the Imposter, the Fake and the Secret History in Nineteenth-Century Britain by R.McWilliam, The Fauntleroy Forgeries and the Making of White-Collar Crime by R.McGowen; Commercial morality and the common law: or, paying the price of fraud in the later Nineteenth Century by M.Lobban; Dirty laundry: Exposing bad behaviour in life insurance trials, 1830-1890 by T.Alborn.
Law, Literature, and Therapeutic Jurisprudence.
By Amy D. Ronner. CAP 2010.
Verlagsanzeige: “The five chapters of this book put Herman Melville, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Miller, W.H. Hudson, and other literary masters under a Therapeutic Jurisprudence lens and suggests that all of these literary masters are, at least implicitly, concerned with therapeutic justice. Chapter One, introducing Law and Literature and Therapeutic Jurisprudence, suggests how the two movements can symbiotically effectuate common goals. Chapter Two applies law, literature, and therapeutic jurisprudence to criminal procedure and shows how this sheds new light on certain protections that the Constitution accords individuals accused of crime. Chapter Three applies law, literature, and therapeutic jurisprudence to witch hunts, ones fueled by irrational fear and discrimination, and also delves into a present day witch hunt — homophobia — which pulverizes individuals in their daily lives. Chapter Four applies law, literature, and therapeutic jurisprudence to legal education and law practice itself. It suggests how educators can use literature and therapeutic jurisprudence to improve their interactions with students and train them to demand and build healthy, happy, and rewarding careers. Chapter Five summarizes how Law and Literature plus Therapeutic jurisprudence can become a multidisciplinary perspective that can help us understand and tap into the loving, empathic, and healing forces in not just our legal system, but in our daily lives as well”. Na ja …
Vorschauen habe ich nirgends gefunden, aber immerhin einen Artikel über “Therapeutic Jurisprudence”: “Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned and forsaked: Therapeutic jurisprudence and international human rights law as applied to prisoners and detainees by forensic psychologists”. By Birgden, Astrid; Perlin, Michael. In: Legal and Criminological Psychology, Volume 13, Number 2, September 2008 , pp. 231-243 (Nationallizenz).
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