Trish Ferguson examines how Thomas 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...
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Trish Ferguson examines how Thomas 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
Trish Ferguson examines how Thomas 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
Title Page; Imprint; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1 'If You Only Knew Me Through and Through': The Domestic Trial Scene and Narrative Advocacy; 2 'I Was Not in My Senses, and a Man's Senses Are Himself': The Legal Defence of Insanity; 3 'I Hate to be Thought Men's Property in That Way': Married Women and the Law; 4 'Waiters on Chance': The Tichborne Claimant, Land Law Reform and Rural Dispossession; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
