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Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and ...

Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and ...

Kieran Dolin

Utilizing legal and literary theory, Kieran Dolin examines the interplay between legal discourse and the novel in the century between Walter Scott and E. M. Forster.
Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and ...

Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and ...

Kieran Dolin

Utilising legal and literary theory, Kieran Dolin examines the interplay between legal discourse and the novel in the century between Walter Scott and E. M. Forster.
A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature

A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature

Kieran Dolin

Originally published in 2007, this book provides an accessible guide to one of the most exciting areas of interdisciplinary scholarship.
The Brontës in Context

The Brontës in Context

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IO II 12 Is 14 I5 16 See, for instance, Kieran Dolin, Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 71-96, and Richard Weisberg, Poethics and Other Strategies of Law and ...
Law and Literature

Law and Literature

Richard A. Posner

Kieran Dolin's book maintains a steadier focus on legal and literary texts than Binder and Weisberg's. But it is indiscriminate in coverage; jargon-laden in expression (reflecting the baleful influence of literary theory); politically obsessed; and ...
Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian ...

Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian ...

Ayelet Ben-Yishai

Basing his analysis on Robert Cover's understanding of nomos as a normative universe made meaningful through narrative, Kieran Dolin notes that “many fictional representations of the law in this age of review were actuated by reformist ...
Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theater: Nordic ...

Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theater: Nordic ...

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“All law”, as Kieran Dolin has recently concluded, “is inevitably a matter of language”.3 It is a conclusion which bears a striking resemblance to Robert Cover's earlier and renowned injunction, “No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists ...
George Eliot in Context

George Eliot in Context

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CHAPTER 21 Law Kieran Dolin In Adarn Bede George Eliot compares her aims as a novelist to the act of giving evidence in a court oflaw: 'my strongest effort is to give a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in ...
Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the ...

Literature and Human Rights: The Law, the Language and the ...

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As Kieran Dolin has recently confirmed, all “law is inevitably a matter of language .”1 It is textual, for which reason the kinds of things that literary scholars contemplate, such as how we read or how we interpret, matter to lawyers too. Equally ...
From Civil to Human Rights: Dialogues on Law and Humanities ...

From Civil to Human Rights: Dialogues on Law and Humanities ...

Helle Porsdam

The most 'fundamental connection between law and literature', writes Kieran Dolin (2007), is that 'law is inevitably a matter of language. The law can only be articulated in words'.1 This is no doubt one of the reasons why the law and literature ...
George Eliot (Authors in Context)

George Eliot (Authors in Context)

Tim Dolin

In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed.
George Eliot (Authors in Context)

George Eliot (Authors in Context)

Tim Dolin

In this book Tim Dolin examines Eliot's life and work and the social and intellectual contexts in which they developed.
Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel

Mistress of the House: Women of Property in the Victorian Novel

Tim Dolin

Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation cannot be considered ...
We Were Kings

We Were Kings

Thomas O'Malley

... but he knew Kieran Fitzgerald and the slim, lighthaired fellow at the back, Bobby Myles. The other two were strangers to him. “Kieran,” he said. “How was the ride across?” “A right bitch, that's what it was,” said Fitzgerald. “The boat tossed us ...
The Mighty Quinns: Kieran

The Mighty Quinns: Kieran

Kate Hoffmann

How do you start a life from scratch?
Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

Tim Dolin

A concise biography of a man who during his lifetime (1840-1928) published 14 novels, nearly 50 short stories, a 3-volume epic, and close to 1000 poems
Oxford Textbook of Medical Education

Oxford Textbook of Medical Education

Kieran Walsh

Contributors to this book come from a variety of different backgrounds, disciplines and locations, producing a book that is truly original and international.
Technical Writing Process: The Simple, Five-Step Guide That ...

Technical Writing Process: The Simple, Five-Step Guide That ...

Kieran Morgan

"Plan, structure, write, review, publish"--Cover.
Hardy and His Readers

Hardy and His Readers

T. Wright

DR Desperate Remedies, ed. Mary Rimmer, 1998 [1871]. FMC Far From the Madding Crowd, ed. Rosemarie Morgan, 2000 [1874]. HE The Hand of Ethelberta, ed. Tim Dolin, 1996 [1876]. JO Jude the Obscure, ed. Dennis Taylor, 1998 [1895].
A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, ...

A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, ...

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Chapter 10 Fiction and the Australian Reading Public, 1888-1914 Tim Dolin For a brief moment in the history of the modern West, between about 1 880 and 1920, narrative fiction in books, newspapers, and magazines dominated the rapidly ...
Selfish, Scared and Stupid: Stop Fighting Human Nature And ...

Selfish, Scared and Stupid: Stop Fighting Human Nature And ...

Kieran Flanagan

This book helps businesses design their organisations for reality rather than perfection, and also offers strategies to head off unprecedented levels of disengagement within, and outside, the business.
Marathon Marriage

Marathon Marriage

M. F. Kenny

Together with his business partners Billy Dalton, Kieran Egan TD, and Tom Corcoran and a merchant Gerry Nallen and a Teacher Denny Ryder. It was the greatest occasion of his life to be following in his grandfather's footsteps for a similar ...
Book Art Studio Handbook: Techniques and Methods for Binding ...

Book Art Studio Handbook: Techniques and Methods for Binding ...

Stacie Dolin

This book goes beyond quick craft projects and into the heart of bookmaking, binding, letterpress printing, decorative cover techniques, book conservation, and other book arts.
Penmort Castle:

Penmort Castle:

Kristen Ashley

Jennifer Kane was the kind of woman who didn't let anything faze her. Kieran had a great job that paid really well but he also had to move from country to country. Without a peep, Jenny went with him. She said good-bye to friends. She bought ...
Magazine Law: A Practical Guide

Magazine Law: A Practical Guide

Peter Mason

Joanne Butcher, at the PTC, and Rebecca Barden, senior editor at Routledge, inherited responsibility for the project before the halfway stage and have been eager to steer it to completion. Kieran Dowling, from the Department of Employment, ...
China

China

Damian Harper

... Sim and Maki in Chéngdū for the warm welcome and the western Sìchuān adventures (Maki, it's your turn next time); Andrew Scanlon, Kieran Fitzgerald and Li Shu Lan for their hospitality in Jiǔzhàigōu; Lu Min (Rebecca) for exploring with  ...
Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the ...

Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the ...

John D. Riofrio

... and was dreaming of an eventual career in the military—likely had no idea the Marines were even there. According to Kieran Fitzgerald's documentary film The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández, the Marines, led by Corporal Clemente Bañuelos  ...
Fair Game: The 8th Spider Shepherd Thriller

Fair Game: The 8th Spider Shepherd Thriller

Stephen Leather

He was on the O'Connell Bridge and he was early. Fox was always early to meetings, even when he was seeing someone he trusted as much as he trusted Kieran FitzGerald. It was a habit that had saved his life on at least two occasions.
Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and ...

Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and ...

Kieran Healy

Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe and the United States.

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