Ian Ward
Law and the Brontës
Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York 2012.
vi, 195 pp.
ISBN: 9780230251472
In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Brontë sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontës and the mid-nineteenth century ‘woman’s novel’, but also the situation of women in nineteenth century English law and the debates which moved around its prospective reform.
IAN WARD (1963-) Professor of Law at Newcastle University, UK, having previously taught at the Universities of Durham, Sussex and Dundee. He has also held visiting positions at the Universities of Iowa, Montpellier, Lisbon, Alberta and most recently the Centre for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maxmilien University in Munich, Germany. His previous publications in the area of ‘law and literature’, include Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives (Cambridge UP, New York, 1995. ISBN: 0521474744), Shakespeare and the legal imagination (London, Butterworths, Lexis Law Pub., 1999. ISBN: 040698803X) and Law, Text, Terror (ISBN-10: 0521740215. ISBN-13: 9780521740210. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. New York, 2009) [vid. sobre ella en este blog entreda de Friday, July 31, 2009, https://mixcelanea.es/iuridisctio/2009/07/law-text-terror.html).
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The Brontë sisters house in Haworth. Finger Puppets
Mi contribución a difundir de la narrativa brontëana en el campo de estudios iusliterarios en España ha sido haber animado a la Dra. Cristina Monereo Atienza en la redacción del trabajo que tituló “Narrativa y Género. Sobre desigualdad y justicia social en Villette de C. Brönte e Insolación de E. Pardo Bazán”, publicado en José Calvo González (coord.), Implicación Derecho Literatura: Contribuciones a una Teoría literaria del Derecho, Edit. Comares, Granada, 2008 (ISBN: 978-84-9836-344-9), pp. 235-252, a cuya lectura invito.
J.C.G.
