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## Explores Thomas Hardy’s engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction GBS\_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748673247','ISBN:9780748673254']);This book examines how Hardy’s role as an acting magistrate and his lifelong interest in the law impacted on his prose fiction. Hardy’s novels and short stories are examined in the context of debates surrounding some of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century, namely the birth of adversarial trial procedure, the evolving definition of legal insanity, the campaign for legal equality for married women and heightened discussion over land law reform. This book situates Hardy’s treatment of these issues in the context of debate in Parliament, the press, periodicals and sensation fiction. While noting the influence of sensation fiction on his literary output this study argues that Hardy rejects the conventional endings of realist and sensation fiction to provoke his readership to examine legal questions which he leaves unanswered in a modernist form of training in judicial reasoning.

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Author

Trish (Liverpool Hope University) Ferguson

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299964068

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Literary Fiction