Common Precedents The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction |
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| Author:
| Ben-Yishai, Ayelet |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-023685-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2015 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $65.41AUD $75.95 |
Book Description:
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Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society.
Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society.