Gender, Law, and the British Novel: Context and Interpretation

This panel was recorded May 14, 2010, as part of the conference "Gender, Law, and the British Novel," organized by Martha Nussbaum, Alison LaCroix, and Jane Dailey. Participants included:

  • Alison LaCroix, "The Lawyer's Library in the Early American Republic"
  • Robert Ferguson, "Proposals and Performative Utterance in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Professional Man's Plight"
  • Sandra Macpherson: "Character Shape: Toward a Feminist Formalism"
  • Blakey Vermeule: "A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative"
  • Chair: Eric Slauter