Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Province of the Law

                                          

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• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press; 1 edition (January 1, 2001)
• Language: English

   Ina"Reconstituting Authority, "aWilliam Moddelmog explores the ways in which American law and literature converged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through close readings of significant texts from the era, he reveals not only how novelists invoked specific legal principles and ideals in their fictions but also how they sought to reconceptualize the boundaries of law and literature in ways that transformed previous versions of both legal and literary authority.Moddelmog does not assume a sharp distinction between literary and legal institutions and practices but shows how writers imagined the two fields as engaged in the same cultural process. He argues that because the law was 

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