In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature /
Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-
In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / Kristin Kalsem. - 1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction. Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.
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"In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature, by Kristin Kalsem, explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms and in the legal forum provided by the novel form. The nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented reform in laws affecting married women's property, child support and custody, lunacy, divorce, birth control, domestic violence, and women in the legal profession. Women's contributions to these changes in the law, however, have been largely ignored because their work, stories, and perspectives are not recorded in authoritative legal texts; rather, evidence of their arguments and views are recorded in writings of a different kind. This book examines lesser-known works of nonfiction and fiction by legal reformers such as Annie Besant and Georgina Weldon and novelists such as Frances Trollope, Jane Hume Clapperton, George Paston, and Florence Dixie. In Contempt brings to light new connections between Victorian law and literature, not only with its analysis of many "lost" novels but also with its new legal readings of old ones such as Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Rider Haggard's She (1887), and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895). This study reexamines the cultural and political roles of the novel in light of "new evidence" that many nineteenth-century novels were "lawless"--Showing contempt for, rather than policing, the law"--Publisher's description.
9780814270448
Women's rights in literature.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Law in literature.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Droit dans la litterature.
Litterature--Histoire et critique.--19e siecle
Feminisme et droit.
Women in literature.
Law in literature.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--19th century.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--19th century
Feminist jurisprudence.
Women's rights in literature.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
In Contempt : Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature / Kristin Kalsem. - 1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Introduction. Narrative advocacy, outlaw texts, and nineteenth-century Portias -- A novel approach to feminist jurisprudence : narrating the gothic reality of coverture -- Legislative histories and literary herstories : infanticide, bastardy, and the "lewd woman" -- Birth control on trial : law, literature, and libel -- Sitting in judgment : a cross-examination of women, law, and empire -- Appealing women : late-century publication of private wrongs.
Open Access
"In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature, by Kristin Kalsem, explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms and in the legal forum provided by the novel form. The nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented reform in laws affecting married women's property, child support and custody, lunacy, divorce, birth control, domestic violence, and women in the legal profession. Women's contributions to these changes in the law, however, have been largely ignored because their work, stories, and perspectives are not recorded in authoritative legal texts; rather, evidence of their arguments and views are recorded in writings of a different kind. This book examines lesser-known works of nonfiction and fiction by legal reformers such as Annie Besant and Georgina Weldon and novelists such as Frances Trollope, Jane Hume Clapperton, George Paston, and Florence Dixie. In Contempt brings to light new connections between Victorian law and literature, not only with its analysis of many "lost" novels but also with its new legal readings of old ones such as Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Rider Haggard's She (1887), and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895). This study reexamines the cultural and political roles of the novel in light of "new evidence" that many nineteenth-century novels were "lawless"--Showing contempt for, rather than policing, the law"--Publisher's description.
9780814270448
Women's rights in literature.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Law in literature.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Femmes dans la litterature.
Droit dans la litterature.
Litterature--Histoire et critique.--19e siecle
Feminisme et droit.
Women in literature.
Law in literature.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--19th century.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--19th century
Feminist jurisprudence.
Women's rights in literature.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.