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Law, Equity and Romantic Writing
Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions
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This provocative and timely volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the 'age of revolutions' from 1750 to 1850 a period which was marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and to rethink attitudes towards poverty and criminality. While the chapters...
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Explores the pursuit of justice through the processes of writing, reading and interpreting in Enlightenment and Romantic-period literature
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This provocative and timely volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the 'age of revolutions' from 1750 to 1850 a period which was marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and to rethink attitudes towards poverty and criminality. While the chapters revolve around legal topics, they concentrate on literary engagements with the experience of the law, revealing how people perceived the fairness of a given legal order and worked with and against regulations to adjust the rule of law to the demands of conscience. The volume updates analysis of this conflict between law and equity by drawing on the concept of 'epistemic injustice' to describe the harm done to personal identity and collective flourishing by the uneven distribution of resources and the wish to punish breaches of order. It shows how writing and reading can foment inquiries into the meanings of 'justice' and 'equity' and aid efforts to humanise the rule of law.
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
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ISBN: 9781399500388
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Illustration: 11 black and white illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Regina Hewitt
- Edited by Michael Demson
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 312
About the Author
Michael Demson is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. He coedited, with Christopher Clason, Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms (2020) and, with Regina Hewitt, Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era (2019). He has published articles in European Romantic Review, Romanticism, Romantic Circles, The Keats-Shelley Journal, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, among others. His graphic novel, Masks of Anarchy: From Percy Shelley to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, was published in 2013. Regina Hewitt is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. Her most recent publications include Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-Making during the Romantic Era, co-edited with Michael Demson (2019), and an edition of Lawrie Todd for the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of John Galt (2023). Formerly Co-Editor of the European Romantic Review, she now serves as a Consulting Editor for that journal.
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