In contempt : nineteenth-century women, law, and literature
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Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012., Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press, [2012].
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Published
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2012., Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press, [2012].
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xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature, by Kristin Kalsem, explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms and in the legal forum provided by the novel form. The nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented reform in laws affecting married women's property, child support and custody, lunacy, divorce, birth control, domestic violence, and women in the legal profession. Women's contributions to these changes in the law, however, have been largely ignored because their work, stories, and perspectives are not recorded in authoritative legal texts; rather, evidence of their arguments and views are recorded in writings of a different kind. This book examines lesser-known works of nonfiction and fiction by legal reformers such as Annie Besant and Georgina Weldon and novelists such as Frances Trollope, Jane Hume Clapperton, George Paston, and Florence Dixie. In Contempt brings to light new connections between Victorian law and literature, not only with its analysis of many "lost" novels but also with its new legal readings of old ones such as Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847), George Eliot's Adam Bede (1859), Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Rider Haggard's She (1887), and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (1895). This study reexamines the cultural and political roles of the novel in light of "new evidence" that many nineteenth-century novels were "lawless"--showing contempt for, rather than policing, the law.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kalsem, K. (2012). In contempt: nineteenth-century women, law, and literature . Ohio State University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-. 2012. In Contempt: Nineteenth-century Women, Law, and Literature. Ohio State University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Kalsem, Kristin, 1962-. In Contempt: Nineteenth-century Women, Law, and Literature Ohio State University Press, 2012.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kalsem, Kristin. In Contempt: Nineteenth-century Women, Law, and Literature Ohio State University Press, 2012.

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