Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination
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Situated at the intersection of law and literature, nineteenth-century studies and post-colonialism, Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination draws on original archival research to shed new light on Victorian literature. Each chapter explores the relationship between the shared cultural logic of law and literature, and considers how this inflected colonial sociality. Leila Neti approaches the legal archive in a distinctly literary fashion, attending to nuances of voice, character, diction and narrative, while also tracing elements of fact and procedure, reading the case summaries as literary texts to reveal the common turns of imagination that motivated both fictional and legal narratives. What emerges is an innovative political analytic for understanding the entanglements between judicial and cultural norms in Britain and the colony, bridging the critical gap in how law and literature interact within the colonial arena. Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Privy Council The Heteroglossia of Colonial Law Making Law Colonial Law as Narrative Law and Literature Reading the Archives Legal Fictions: The Law as Text The Archive Periodization On Appeal: The Docket Part I Criminality Chapter 1 ''Power Able to Overawe Them All'': Criminality and the Uses of Fear Representing the Defendants Imaginative Life and the Biopolitics of Fear Capitalizing on Fear Affect and Effect ''Terror and Example'' ''All Benefit to Be Expected from a Public Example'' The Spectacle of Violence Another Eduljee Chapter 2 The Social Life of Crime: Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug Thug Lives ''And Strike Terror into the English Government'' Crime and Its Punishment ''The Terror of Childhood'' Reforming the Criminal The Name of the Father Reframing the Thug Part II Temporality Chapter 3 Injurious Pasts: The Temporality of Caste Ordering the Courts Brahminism and the Law The Biopolitics of Bureaucracy Litigating Time Beyond Memory and History The Temporality of the Law Establishing Precedents Chapter 4 On Time: How Fiction Writes History in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone Setting the Stage Sectarianism and Subjection Opposing Temporalities Fictional Historicism The Law of Time The Mystery of History ''The Influence of Character'' Part III Adoption and Inheritance Chapter 5 The Begum's Fortune: Adoption, Inheritance, and Private Property Family Politics Love Beyond Kinship: An Unfamiliar Bequest ''A Faithful Friend of the Company'' Privacy and Property The Last Word Narratives of Adoption Chapter 6 Foundlings and Adoptees: Filiality in the Novels of George Eliot By Right of Blood The Coming of the Child A Family Conjured from Gold Adoption as Social Stigma ''I Am Not My Father's Son'' ''Not Quite a Human Mother'' Adopting the Faith Love and the Sacred Inheritance Adoption's Uncertain Horizons Afterword The Discourse of Justice Fiction and Reality: A Case in Point The Afterlife of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Notes Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Afterword Bibliography Index
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