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- catalog abstract ""In Reconstituting Authority, William 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 instrumental in setting the terms by which concepts such as race, gender, nationhood, ownership, and citizenship were defined in the nineteenth century, authors challenging those definitions had to engage the law on its own terrain: to place their work in a dialogue with the law by telling stories that were already authorized (though perhaps suppressed) by legal institutions."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b11966063.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""In Reconstituting Authority, William 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 instrumental in setting the terms by which concepts such as race, gender, nationhood, ownership, and citizenship were defined in the nineteenth century, authors challenging those definitions had to engage the law on its own terrain: to place their work in a dialogue with the law by telling stories that were already authorized (though perhaps suppressed) by legal institutions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-268) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 276 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Reconstituting authority.".
- catalog identifier "0877457360 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Reconstituting authority.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
- catalog relation "Reconstituting authority.".
- catalog subject "813/.409355 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authority in literature.".
- catalog subject "Law and literature History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Law and literature History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Law in literature.".
- catalog subject "Legal stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS374.L34 M63 2000".
- catalog title "Reconstituting authority : American fiction in the province of the law, 1880-1920 / William E. Moddelmog.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".