Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels
- Chapter 3 Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules
- Chapter 4 Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House
- Chapter 5 A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the “narcissus”
- Chapter 6 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental confinement in Sterne's novels
- Chapter 3 Reinstitutionalizing the common law: Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules
- Chapter 4 Aporias of retribution and questions of responsibility: the legacy of incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House
- Chapter 5 A curse gone re-cursive: the case and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the “narcissus”
- Chapter 6 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Literature and Legal DiscourseEquity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999