| Description |
1 online resource (175 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Scholarship on the relationship between Victorian photography and the law -- The influence and reinterpretation of Michel Foucault's panopticism -- Scholarship on the relationship between Victorian photography and fiction -- Scholarship on the law's war against the image -- The difference between the representation of photography in writing and the adoption of photography outside of writing -- Legal reading and literalism |
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First reading: introducing literalism and the literalist and their association with photography, art and law -- Second reading: literalism, literalists and the work of gendering in fiction -- Third reading: fiction and the prohibition of photography from the courtroom in 1925 -- References -- Chapter 1: Representation of photography, literalist reading and 'the absence of higher truths' in art -- Fine art, art criticism and photography -- John Ruskin: photography and artistic truth -- Ruskin, the literalism of photography, hidden truth and the power of reading |
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Ruskin on the relationship between reading, the law and power -- The representation of women: exploring art's gendered idea of photography's literalism and reading the law -- Art, reading and photography in fiction -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Photography's 'fatal resemblances': Reading the invisibility of individuality and truth in the work of Wilkie Collins -- Introduction -- Wilkie Collins, truth and photography -- Individuality, the identity photograph and the law -- The relationship between scientific photography and the murder of the individual: copying and 'fatal resemblances' |
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Constructing a reading of individuality and legal truth against the threat of resemblance -- Group identity vs. individual identity: the political dimensions of reading as an exclusion of finding and exploiting resemblances -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Representation and reading against photographic details in the work of Henry James -- Photography and its particularity: details and women -- Particulars and particularism as an alternative to conventionally reading the law -- Blindness, reading and truth -- Conclusion |
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Chapter 4: Photograph albums in fiction: The illegitimate plots and counter-narratives of the photograph-book -- The context to the relationship between the photograph album, art and fiction -- A fictional representation of the photographic album as a narrative powerhouse -- Fiction's response to the threat of the photograph album's writing through the lens of the law: the construction of the failed and illegitimate plot of characters -- Fiction's inventive literary criticism of the plot associated with the photograph album |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Fiction's 'legitimate' counter plot as it emerges through contrast to the photograph book plot |
| Subject |
Law and literature.
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Law and literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000428629 |
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1000428621 |
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