Reconstituting Authority American Fiction in the Providence of the Law
Moddelmog, William E. Reconstituting Authority: American Fiction in the Providence of the Law, 1880-1920. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [2000]. x, 276 pp. Publisher's black cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket with Brodart. $30. * An interdisciplinary study investigating the shifting relationship between American literature, professional legal authority, and social governance at the turn of the twentieth century. Moddelmog examines how prominent authors of the Realist and Naturalist eras utilized fiction to challenge the expanding institutional sovereignty of the legal profession. The narrative analyzes the works of writers such as Charles W. Chesnutt, William Dean Howells, Pauline Hopkins, and Theodore Dreiser, exploring how their texts engaged with contemporary legal crises surrounding corporate regulation, racial segregation, contract law, and the constitutional boundaries of individual rights in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America.
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