Law and the Brontës

IAN WARD 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, 1995), Shakespeare and the Law (Butterworths, 1999) and Law, Text, Terror (Cambridge UP, 2009).

Acknowledgements Introduction: The Brontë Cases Huntingdon v Huntingdon Heathcliff's Case The Rochester Wives The State and Shirley Keeldar Conclusion: The Trials of Lucy Snowe Bibliography Index