Cross-examinations of law and literature : Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Melville / Brook Thomas.
Material type: TextSeries: Cambridge studies in American literature and culturePublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.Description: xii, 300 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0521330815
- 813/.3/09355 19
- PS374.L34 T56 1987
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 256-291.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Individuals, judges, property -- The pioneers; or the sources of American legal history : a critical tale -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's legal story -- The house of the seven gables : Hawthorne's romance of art -- Wage and chattel slavery -- "Benito Cereno" : Melville's narrative of repression -- A sentimental journey : escape from bondage in Uncle Tom's cabin -- Exploitation at home and at sea -- "Bartleby, the scrivener" : fellow servants and free agents on Wall Street -- Contracts and confidence men -- Billy Budd and re-righting legal history -- Measured forms -- Ragged edges.