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'Ian Ward's revelation of the 'subterranean jurisprudence' of the Bronte novels provides readers of all kinds with a new understanding of the social significance of this powerful group of stories. His engaging, essayistic style opens up the historical meanings and the continuing relevance of the legal issues with which the Brontës engaged. Ward identifies the limitations of marriage and property law, the experience of violence and legal manipulation within the family, and the struggle between social authority and individual resistance as animating concerns of these novels, and as a key to their imaginative power over audiences then and now. This book fills a major gap in the interdisciplinary study of law and literature in nineteenth-century England.' - Kieran Dolin, Chair and Associate Professor, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
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Book Title: Law and the Brontës
Authors: Ian Ward
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230358331
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-25147-2Published: 12 December 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32132-2Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-35833-1Published: 12 December 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 195
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Nineteenth-Century Literature