Colonial law in India and the Victorian imagination / Leila Neti, Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Call Number	823/.8093554
Author	Neti, Leila, author.
Title	Colonial law in India and the Victorian imagination / Leila Neti, Occidental College, Los Angeles.
Physical Description	1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series	Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 128
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).
Contents	I. Criminality -- 'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear -- The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug -- II. Temporality -- Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste -- On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone -- III. Adoption and Inheritance -- The Begum's Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property -- Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in George Eliot's Novels.
Summary	Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.
Subject	English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Justice, Administration of India History 19th century. NARRATION (RHETORIC) Law and literature Great Britain History 19th century. Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938280

Total Ratings: 0

Copies
MARC Record
Reviews
Details


No records found to display.

03168nam a22004458i 4500

001

vtls001594393

003

VRT

005

20220808222600.0

006

m|||||o||d||||||||

007

cr||||||||||||

008

220808s2021||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d

020

$a 9781108938280 (ebook)

020

$z 9781108837484 (hardback)

020

$z 9781108942355 (paperback)

035

$a (UkCbUP)CR9781108938280

039

$y 202208082226 $z santha

040

$a UkCbUP $b eng $e rda $c UkCbUP

043

$a e-uk--- $a a-ii---

050

$a PR878.L39 $b N48 2021

082

$a 823/.8093554 $2 23

100

$a Neti, Leila, $e author.

245

$a Colonial law in India and the Victorian imagination / $c Leila Neti, Occidental College, Los Angeles.

264

$a Cambridge : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2021.

300

$a 1 online resource (xi, 302 pages) : $b digital, PDF file(s).

336

$a text $b txt $2 rdacontent

337

$a computer $b c $2 rdamedia

338

$a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier

490

$a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 128

500

$a Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).

505

$a I. Criminality -- 'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear -- The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug -- II. Temporality -- Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste -- On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone -- III. Adoption and Inheritance -- The Begum's Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property -- Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in George Eliot's Novels.

520

$a Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.

610

$a Great Britain. $b Privy Council. $b Judicial Committee.

650

$a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism.

650

$a Justice, Administration of $z India $x History $y 19th century.

650

$a NARRATION (RHETORIC)

650

$a Law and literature $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century.

776

$i Print version: $z 9781108837484

830

$a Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; $v 128.

856

$u https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938280

999

$a VIRTUA

No Reviews to Display

Summary	Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2021).
Contents	I. Criminality -- 'A Power Able to Overawe Them All': Criminality and the Uses of Fear -- The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug -- II. Temporality -- Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste -- On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone -- III. Adoption and Inheritance -- The Begum's Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property -- Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in George Eliot's Novels.
Subject	English fiction 19th century History and criticism. Justice, Administration of India History 19th century. NARRATION (RHETORIC) Law and literature Great Britain History 19th century. Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108938280