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Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions

Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions

Ferguson, Trish

Paperback

Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture

Literary CriticismGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1399567543
ISBN13: 9781399567541
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jul 31 2026
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Explores Thomas Hardy's engagement with Victorian legal debates in his prose fiction
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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