Law, Equity and Romantic Writing

This volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the "age of revolutions" (c. 1750–1850), marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and 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 perceive the fairness of a given legal order and work with and against regulations to adjust the rule of law to the demands of c