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- Title
The Faculties of Law: Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee as Legal Fiction.
- Authors
Jaros, Peter
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "Sheppard Lee: Written by Himself" by Robert Montgomery Bird. It outlines the legal mechanics addressed by the reanimation, mortality and immortality, and embodiment depicted by the novel. It examines the medical and philosophical questions of life, death, and personal identity amid discussions on the legal and political faculties of personhood, with an emphasis on the transformation of personhood particular to the institutions of Jacksonian America.
- Subjects
SHEPPARD Lee: Written by Himself (Book); BIRD, Robert Montgomery; PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge) in literature; JACKSONIAN democracy; FICTIONS (Law)
- Publication
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2015, Vol 3, Issue 2, p307
- ISSN
2166-742X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/jnc.2015.0027