Subversion and Sympathy

Alison LaCroix is Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School. Martha Nussbaum is Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Chicago

Introduction ; Alison L. LaCroix and Martha C. Nussbaum ; Preface ; Diane P. Wood ; I. Marriage and Sex ; The Moral and Legal Consequences of Wife-Selling in The Mayor of Casterbridge ; Julie C. Suk ; Jude the Obscure: The Irrelevance of Marriage Law ; Amanda Claybaugh ; The History of Obscenity, the British Novel, and the First Amendment ; Geoffrey R. Stone ; Jane Austen: Comedy and Social Structure ; Richard A. Posner ; II. Law, Social Norms, and Women's Agency ; Pious Perjury in Scott's The Heart of Midlothian ; Julia Simon-Kerr ; Rape, Seduction, Purity, and Shame in Tess of the d'Urbervilles ; Marcia Baron ; The Stain of Illegitimacy: Gender, Law, and Trollopian Subversion ; Martha C. Nussbaum ; Could He Forgive Her? Gender, Agency, and Women's Criminality in the Novels of Anthony Trollope ; Nicola Lacey ; III. Property, Commerce, Travel ; Law, Commerce, and Gender in Trollope's Framley Parsonage ; Douglas G. Baird ; Primogeniture, Legal Change, and Trollope ; Saul Levmore ; Defoe's Formal Laws ; Bernadette Meyler ; IV. Readers and Interpretation ; The Lawyer's Library in the Early American Republic ; Alison L. LaCroix ; Proposals and Performative Utterance in the 19th-Century Novel: the Professional Man's Plight ; Robert A. Ferguson ; A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative and the Emotions ; Blakey Vermeule