Literature and Legal Discourse: Equity and Ethics from Sterne to Conrad

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
CHAPTER 1 Introduction......Page 11
THE MARGINAL......Page 12
THE EQUITABLE......Page 15
THE UNPARALLELED......Page 18
THE SOCIAL NATURE OF BONDING......Page 22
VALUING CLAIMS TO RECOGNITION......Page 25
DEFOE AND STERNE......Page 30
A SENTIMENTAL CONFINEMENT OF REFINEMENT......Page 37
WHY SENTIMENTAL COMMERCE IS A PARA-LEGAL MODE OF EQUITY......Page 46
EN- GENDERING TOBY’S TRANSFERS OF AFFECTION......Page 52
HOW TOBY’S PATERNAL KINDNESS INCURS PROMISSORY LIABILITY......Page 56
WHAT DOES SYMPATHY WANT OF ME? OR: YORICK GOES FISHING FOR COMPLIMENTS......Page 62
HOW TO TRUST CONSCIENCE BY SUBSTITUTING JUDGMENT......Page 71
SECURED EXPECTATIONS VERSUS UNFORCED CHOICES?......Page 82
COMMON-LAW THEORY: CUSTOM, REASON, SOLIDARITY......Page 89
THE UTILITY OF PRECEDENTS AND ESTABLISHED RULES......Page 100
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME! OR: CONTROLLING THE ACTIVATION OF UTILITARIAN CONSCIENCE......Page 108
LEGAL FICTIONS AND JUDICIAL AUTHORITY......Page 116
FROM POSITIVISM TO INSTITUTIONALIZATION......Page 123
OUTLASTING DISAPPOINTMENT UNDER POSITIVE LAW......Page 134
COMPLEXITIES AND COMPLICITIES: LEGAL PRACTICES AND THE NOVEL......Page 140
THEMATIZED PERSPECTIVITY......Page 151
LAW AND CRIME......Page 160
WHAT IT MEANS TO INHERIT A LEGACY OF PROPRIETORIAL EXCHANGE......Page 169
IS THERE SUCH A THING AS EQUITABLE UNNATURAL DEATH?......Page 179
RENEWAL, RETRIBUTION, REVENGE......Page 190
A RESPONSIBLE DISSIPATION OF APORIAS......Page 200
DISTRIBUTING COMPENSATORY JUSTICE AND JUSTIFYING THE DISTRIBUTION OF RISK......Page 213
POSITIONED FOR PAYBACK: SOCIAL INSECURITY AND THE NEGATIVE GLITZ FACTOR......Page 218
A CASE OF MURDER OR A CURSE OF EXPIATION?......Page 226
THE MULTIPLE BORDERS OF RESENTMENT, OR: ALTRUISM ON TRIAL......Page 233
ANTICIPATING WRONGFUL DEATH......Page 238
CODA: THE VERDICT OF CONFINEMENT......Page 245
CHAPTER 6 Conclusion......Page 253
1 INTRODUCTION......Page 256
2 TRAPPINGS OF A TRANSNATIONAL GAZE: LEGAL AND SENTIMENTAL CONFINEMENT IN STERNE’S NOVELS......Page 258
3 REINSTITUTIONALIZING THE COMMON LAW: BENTHAM ON THE SECURITY AND FLEXIBILITY OF LEGAL RULES......Page 261
4 APORIAS OF RETRIBUTION AND QUESTIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY: THE LEGACY OF INCARCERATION IN DICKENS’S BLEAK HOUSE......Page 265
5 A CURSE GONE RE-CURSIVE: THE CASE AND CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY IN CONRAD’S THE NIGGER OF THE ‘‘NARCISSUS’’......Page 270
Index......Page 274