Staging the Trials of Modernism

Staging the Trials of Modernism

Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness

Barleben, Dale

University of Toronto Press

02/2017

184

Dura

Inglês

9781487501075

15 a 20 dias

In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce
Acknowledgements Introduction - Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture and the Interiority of the Civil Subject Chapter 1 - Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer's Charter and Oscar Wilde's Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism Chapter 2 - Law's Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad Chapter 3 - High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce Chapter 4 - Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity Works Consulted