Reading for the law British literary history and gender advocacy /

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Glavni autor: Krueger, Christine L.
Autor kompanije: ebrary, Inc
Format: Elektronički e-knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Serija:Victorian literature and culture series.
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  • Introduction : Theory, advocacy, and history
  • Historiographies of witchcraft for feminist advocacy : historical justice in Elizabeth Gaskell's Lois the witch
  • Witchcraft precedents as literary history : from The discoverie of witchcraft to Sir Matthew Hale
  • The historical turn in witchcraft literature : from Enlightenment historiography to historical realism
  • Theories and histories of agency : Mary Wollstonecraft's narrative of the reasonable woman
  • Agency, equity, publicity : compos mentis in Charles Reade's Hard cash and lunacy commission reports
  • Gendered credibility : testimony in fiction and indecent assault
  • Women's legal literacy and pro se representation : from Griffith Gaunt to Georgina Weldon
  • Concealing women's mens rea: advocacy for female prisoners and infanticidal mothers
  • The secret agency of juries : forging resistance against sodomy prosecution.