Legal Narratives in Victorian Fiction

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 A Trying Situation: Narrative Structure and the Law
	1.1 The Law as a Mirror
	1.2 Legislation and the Civil Law Background
	1.3 Social Change
	1.4 Fiction
	1.5 The Law and Society
	1.6 The Novels
		1.6.1 Authors and Novels in Context
		1.6.2 The Spirit of the Law, the Letter of the Law and the Administration of Justice
			1.6.2.1 George Eliot
			1.6.2.2 Wilkie Collins
		1.6.3 Arthur Conan Doyle
		1.6.4 Prosecuting the Poor: Victorian Poverty and the Poor Laws
		1.6.5 Charles Dickens
		1.6.6 Elizabeth Gaskell
		1.6.7 Women and the Defence of Insanity
			1.6.7.1 Charlotte Brontë
			1.6.7.2 Mary Elizabeth Braddon
	Notes
2 Order in the Courts: The Writer and the Legal Applicability Debate
	2.1 The Influence of Jurisprudence
	2.2 The Spirit of the Law and the Letter of the Law
	2.3 Structure of the Law and Fiction
	2.4 Felix Holt: Questioning the Letter of the Law
	2.5 The Law and the Lady: The Spirit of the Law
	2.6 A Study in Scarlet: Jurisprudence Perfected
	2.7 Prudent Jurisprudence
	Notes
3 Prosecuting the Poor: Victorian Poverty and the Poor Laws
	3.1 The Criminology of the Prosecution of the Poor
	3.2 Class and Culture in Victorian England
	3.3 Moral Panics and Folk Devils
	3.4 The Criminal Poor
	3.5 The Novels
		3.5.1 Oliver Twist
		3.5.2 Mary Barton
	3.6 The Criminal Poor
	3.7 Poverty and the Law
	Notes
4 Bad and Mad: Defending the Criminal Woman
	4.1 Mad and Bad
	4.2 The Defence of Insanity
	4.3 Criminal Women
	4.4 The Criminal Defence of Women
	4.5 Guilty By Reason of Insanity
		4.5.1 Jane Eyre
		4.5.2 Lady Audley’s Secret
	4.6 Legal Madness
	Notes
Bibliography
Index