Name: Cross-Examinations of law and Literature Paperback: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
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Author: Brook Thomas

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Cross-Examinations of law and Literature Paperback: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Brook Thomas

Year

1991

Language

English

Pages

316

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0521409705

ISBN13

9780521409704

Synopsis "Cross-Examinations of law and Literature Paperback: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) "

In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America. The lens reflects both ways, and we learn as much about the literature in the context of contemporary legal concerns as we do about the legal ideologies that the fiction subverts or reveals. Successive chapters deal with Cooper's Pioneers and Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables (property law and the image of the judiciary), Melville's 'Benito Cereno' and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (slavery), Melville's White Jacket, Pierre and 'Bartleby' (worker exploitation or wage slavery), The Confidence-Man (contracts), and finally, 'Billy Budd', which examines a number of issues illustrative of the triumph of legal formalism after the Civil War.

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