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The intersection between law and literature is a developing area in literary studies. Existing work has argued that literature provides an imaginary forum in which legal ideals and practices may be tested. In Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad Dieter Polloczek develops this idea by comparing the notion of equity, or ethics, in fiction with its legal equivalent. He shows how the novel, with its increasing social scope and formal sophistication, provided a means of transmitting, questioning and refining society's traditions, values and modes of self-questioning. Polloczek analyses the links between actual legal fictions like substituted judgements, notions of equity, literary tropes and the construction and representation of social bonds through sentiment, philanthropy and marginalisation. Pollozcek's study is both theoretical and historical, covering a period that extends from the eighteenth century to the modernist period, and texts from Sterne, Dickens, Bentham and Conrad.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Literature and Legal Discourse
• Subtitle: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad
• Author: Dieter Paul Polloczek
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• EAN: 9780521126809
• ISBN: 0521126800
• ID: 02023139
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 420 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. December 2009

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