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Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction Ben-Yishai, Ayelet (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Haifa)
Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction
Ben-Yishai, Ayelet (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Haifa)
Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, Common Precedents shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society.
208 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 1, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780190236854 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 231 × 155 × 18 mm · 299 g |
| Language | English |