Cross-Examinations of Law and Literature: Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville

by Brook Thomas

Book Overview

In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America. The lens reflects both ways, and we learn as much about the literature in the context of contemporary legal concerns as we do about the legal ideologies that the fiction subverts or reveals. Successive chapters deal with Cooper's Pioneers and Hawthorne's The House of Seven...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521409705
• ISBN13: 9780521409704
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"