Rochester and Bertha in "Jane Eyre" and "Wide Sargasso Sea": by Laura Deneke

Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

The eighteenth-century version of the legal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the proof of a case may possibly 'speak for themselves' - used to be deserted in 1836, while laws enabled barristers to deal with the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with legal. more and more, expert acts of interpretation have been visible as essential to in attaining a simply verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by means of eye witnesses at legal trials.

Constructing Crime: Discourse and Cultural Representations of Crime and 'Deviance'

Crime and criminals are a pervasive subject in all parts of our tradition, together with media, journalism, movie and literature. This ebook explores how crime is built and culturally represented via a number of components together with Spanish, English Language and Literature, song, Criminology, Gender, legislation, Cultural and legal Justice stories.

Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture: Sensational Strategies (Oxford English Monographs)

This e-book considers the ways that girls writers used the robust positions of writer and editor to accomplish conventions of gender and style within the Victorian interval. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen wooden, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively) along their sensation fiction to discover the jointly influential innovations of authorship and editorship.

Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers: Volume 3 (Routledge Library Editions: Victorian Poetry)

The focal point of this name, first released in 1989, starts with Dickinson’s poems themselves and the ways that we learn them. There are 3 readings for every of the six poems into consideration which are either complementary and provocative. the chosen poems convey Dickinson conversing of herself in more and more wider relationships – to like, the surface international, dying and eternity – and are grouped jointly to bare her overlapping attitudes and emotions.