Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature »

His study draws on legal and literary theory to trace this important convergence of disciplines in a series of canonical Victorian and Modernist texts.

Acknowledgements;
1. Narrative forms and normative worlds;
2. The modern Western nomos;
3. True testimony and the foundation of nomos - The Heart of Midlothian;
4. Reformist critique in the mid-Victorian 'legal novel' - Bleak House;
5. Representation, inheritance and anti-reformism in the 'legal novel' - Orley Farm;
6. Power, chance and the rule of law - Billy Budd, Sailor;
7. From sympathetic criminal to imperial law-giver - Lord Jim;
8. Freedom, uncertainty and diversity - the critique of imperialist law in A Passage to India;
9. Settling out of court; Notes; Index.