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Examining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family within the modern Gothic novel, Anne Quéma shows how the forms and effects of political power transform as one shifts from discourse to discourse.

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Introduction 1. Symbolic Power and Legitimacy 2. Social Poiesis and Symbolic Power 3. Law's Symbolic Power to Legitimize 4. Symbolic Violence and Illegitimacy: The Political Uncanny 5. The Symbolic Power and Violence of Legal Utterances 6. The Legitimacy of the Family: Family Law and Gothic Fiction 7. The Political Uncanny of the Family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and The Civil Partnership Act 2004 8. Legitimizing the Subject of Domestic Violence: Lesley Glaister's Honour Thy Father and Laws of the Household 9. Resistance and Legitimacy 10. Making the Law

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 24/02/2015
      ISBN13: 9781442649033, 978-1442649033
      ISBN10: 1442649038
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examining modern jurisprudence theory, statutory law, and the family within the modern Gothic novel, Anne Quéma shows how the forms and effects of political power transform as one shifts from discourse to discourse.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction 1. Symbolic Power and Legitimacy 2. Social Poiesis and Symbolic Power 3. Law's Symbolic Power to Legitimize 4. Symbolic Violence and Illegitimacy: The Political Uncanny 5. The Symbolic Power and Violence of Legal Utterances 6. The Legitimacy of the Family: Family Law and Gothic Fiction 7. The Political Uncanny of the Family: Patricia Duncker's The Deadly Space Between and The Civil Partnership Act 2004 8. Legitimizing the Subject of Domestic Violence: Lesley Glaister's Honour Thy Father and Laws of the Household 9. Resistance and Legitimacy 10. Making the Law

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