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In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce

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Acknowledgements Introduction - Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture and the Interiority of the Civil Subject Chapter 1 - Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer's Charter and Oscar Wilde's Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism Chapter 2 - Law's Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad Chapter 3 - High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce Chapter 4 - Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity Works Consulted

Staging the Trials of Modernism

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: 10/01/2017
      ISBN13: 9781487501075, 978-1487501075
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      Book Synopsis
      In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements Introduction - Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture and the Interiority of the Civil Subject Chapter 1 - Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer's Charter and Oscar Wilde's Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism Chapter 2 - Law's Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad Chapter 3 - High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce Chapter 4 - Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity Works Consulted

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