Introduction: Character-Building: Narrative Theory, Narrative Jurisprudence, and the Idea of Character

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Introduction: Character-Building: Narrative Theory, Narrative Jurisprudence, and the Idea of Character 1
5. 1 Incriminating Character: Revisiting the Right to Silence in Adam Bede and The Scarlet Letter 31
6. 2 Gossip, Hearsay, and the Character Exception: Reputation on Trial in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and R v Rowton 83
7. 3 Defamation of Character: Anthony Trollope and the Law of Libel 116
8. 4 Dignity, Disclosure, and the Right to Privacy: The Strange Characters of Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray 165
9. 5 The English Dreyfus Case: Status as Character in an Illiberal Age 207
10. Works Cited 225
11. Index 238