Book Review: Subversion and Sympathy – Gender, Law, and the British Novel

Abstract

The purpose of the book is according to the introduction by the editors to “reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by displaying a range of ways in which literature and law can illuminate one another and in which the conversation between them can illuminate deeper human issues with which both disciplines are concerned. It makes a substantive contribution, by shedding light on a range of gender-related issues, ranging from inheritance to money lending to illegitimacy; but it also makes a methodological contribution, displaying (and discussing) a range of perspectives that exemplify the breadth and range of this interdisciplinary area of scholarship [...].”