Criminal in Gothic Fiction and Contemporary Law
This book transports prevailing criminal legal problems back to their Gothic origins at the close of the nineteenth century.
The Victorian fin-de-siècle was an age of both innovation and repression; a time when industry and empire alike worked to categorise, commodify, and control. It was a time in which law, literature, and the sciences were enmeshed in the gritty business of unpeeling the connec...
This book transports prevailing criminal legal problems back to their Gothic origins at the close of the nineteenth century.
The Victorian fin-de-siècle was an age of both innovation and repression; a time when industry and empire alike worked to categorise, commodify, and control. It was a time in which law, literature, and the sciences were enmeshed in the gritty business of unpeeling the connec...
