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Author:   Martha C. Nussbaum (, University of Chicago) ,  Alison L. LaCroix (, University of Chicago)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.646kg
ISBN:  

9780199812042

ISBN 10:   0199812047
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   31 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Diane P. Wood: Preface Alison L. LaCroix and Martha C. Nussbaum: Introduction Part One 1: Julie C. Suk: The Moral and Legal Consequences of Wife Selling in The Mayor of Casterbridge 2: Amanda Claybaugh: Jude the Obscure: The Irrelevance of Marriage Law 3: Geoffrey R. Stone: The History of Obscenity, the British Novel, and the First Amendment 4: Richard A. Posner: Jane Austen: Comedy and Social Structure Part Two 5: Julia Simon-Kerr: Pious Perjury in Scott's The Heart of Midlothian 6: Marcia Baron: Rape, Seduction, Purity, and Shame in Tess of the d'Urbervilles 7: Martha C. Nussbaum: The Stain of Illegitimacy: Gender, Law, and Trollopian Subversion 8: Nicola Lacey: Could He Forgive Her? Gender, Agency, and Women's Criminality in the Novels of Anthony Trollope Part Three 9: Douglas G. Baird: Law, Commerce, and Gender in Trollope's Framley Parsonage 10: Saul Levmore: Primogeniture, Legal Change, and Trollope 11: Bernadette Meyler: Defoe's Formal Laws Part Four 12: Alison L. LaCroix: The Lawyer's Library in the Early American Republic 13: Robert A. Ferguson: Proposals and Performative Utterance in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Professional Man's Plight 14: Blakey Vermeule: A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative and the Emotions

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Martha Nussbaum is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Alison LaCroix is Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

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