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- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Online publication date:
- March 2014
- Print publication year:
- 2013
- Online ISBN:
- 9780748673254
- Subjects:
- Law: General Interest, Literature, Law, Literary Theory
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Thomas Hardy’s fiction is examined in this book in the context of the seismic legal reforms of the nineteenth century as well as legal discourse in the literature of the era. The book examines the ways in which Hardy’s role as a magistrate and his interest in the law impacted fundamentally on his prose fiction. It demonstrates that throughout his prose fiction Hardy engages with contentious legal issues that were debated by legal professionals and literary figures of his day, and argues that Hardy used fiction as a forum to question the extent to which legal reform improved the lives of women and the working classes.
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