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Romantic Legalism.

Kozaczka, Adam.

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Romantic Legalism.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Romantic Legalism./
Author:	Kozaczka, Adam.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-12A.
Subject:	Law. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13861451
ISBN:	9781392250181

Romantic Legalism.
Kozaczka, Adam.

Romantic Legalism. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 266 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University, 2019.

This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.

Romantic Legalism is primarily about the cross-pollination between two emergent notions of character in the long eighteenth century, especially in the Romantic Period: character as constructed in the realist novel, and character evidence as constructed in the criminal courtroom. I argue that the novel's rise was in part sustained by the genre's self-presentation as a better historian-and consequently a better judge-of "character" than the criminal courtroom. It is no coincidence that the realist novel, the defense attorney, and character evidence as a paradigm opposed to what was more broadly considered evidence drawn from 'circumstance' were all culturally ascendant at roughly the same time. Romantic Legalism complicates existing critical models that track the internalization of judgment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and also seeks to challenge existing readings of circumstantial evidence's centrality in structuring the novel's narrative elements. Instead, I propose that novels defend their protagonists like attorneys defend their clients: building mitigating factors into their descriptions from the very first page onward, novels by authors as politically and formally distinct as Frances Burney, William Godwin, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and others make use of what I call the 'barristerial' or lawyerly narrator to exculpate their transgressive characters. In pursuit of these claims, Romantic Legalism puts well-known novels into conversation with famous cases like the treason trials of the 1790s as well as under-explored legal archives, including judgments related to dueling and Scott's decisions from the bench in his capacity as the Sheriff of Selkirk in Scotland.

ISBN: 9781392250181Subjects--Topical Terms:

600858
Law.

Romantic Legalism.
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