CRC 1385 - C02: Literature as Equity in British Cultural History

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The project investigates the relationship between law and literature in 19th-century Britain. It follows the guiding proposition that literature subverted and replaced the hegemonic position of legal discourse as established after the Glorious Revolution during the 18th Century, thereby claiming a central function in British society. The project hypothesises a paradigm shift from a literary practice which engages the law and adapts to it to a 19th-century concept of literature which gradually emancipates itself from the law and performs a socially and culturally dominant role on its own.