Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521409705
ISBN13:9780521409704
Release Date:May 1991
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:316 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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