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9780195150742
This interdisciplinary study of legal and literary narratives argues that the novel's particular power to represent the interior life of its characters both challenges the law's definitions of criminal responsibility and reaffirms them. By means of connecting major novelists with prominent jurists and legal historians of the era, it offers profound new ways of thinking about the Victorian period.Rodensky, Lisa is the author of 'Crime in Mind Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel' with ISBN 9780195150742 and ISBN 0195150740.
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