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  • Novel Judgements: Legal Theory as Fiction

    Author(s)
    MacNeil, William
    Griffith University Author(s)
    MacNeil, William P.
    Year published
    2012
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    Abstract
    Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature. But by redefining law as legal theory, Novel Judgments departs from socio-legal " studies of law and literature, often dated in their focus on past lawyering and court processes. This text's 'theoretical turn' renders the period's law-and-literature " relevant to today "s readers because the nineteenth century novel, when read 'jurisprudentially', abounds in representations of law's controlling concepts, many of which are still with us today. Rights, justice, law "s morality; each are encoded novelistically in stock devices such as the ...
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    Novel Judgements is a book about nineteenth century Anglo-American law and literature. But by redefining law as legal theory, Novel Judgments departs from socio-legal " studies of law and literature, often dated in their focus on past lawyering and court processes. This text's 'theoretical turn' renders the period's law-and-literature " relevant to today "s readers because the nineteenth century novel, when read 'jurisprudentially', abounds in representations of law's controlling concepts, many of which are still with us today. Rights, justice, law "s morality; each are encoded novelistically in stock devices such as the country house, friendship, love, courtship and marriage. In so rendering the public (law) as private (domesticity), these novels expose for legal and literary scholars alike the ways in which law comes to mediate all relationships "individual and collective, personal and political "during the nineteenth century, a period as much under the Rule of Law as the reign of Capital. So these novels pass judgment "a novel judgment "on the extent to which the nineteenth century "s idea of law is collusive with that era "s Capital, thereby opening up the possibility of a new legal theoretical position: that of a critique of the law and a law of critique.
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    Publisher URI
    https://www.routledge.com/Novel-Judgements-Legal-Theory-as-Fiction/MacNeil/p/book/9780415459143
    Subject
    Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/50107
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