{"product_id":"law-equity-and-romantic-writing-seeking-justice-in-the-age-of-revolutions-9781399500371","title":"Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions","description":"This provocative and timely volume examines the activity of seeking justice through literature during the 'age of revolutions' from 1750 to 1850 - a period which was marked by efforts to expand political and human rights and to rethink attitudes towards poverty and criminality. While the chapters revolve around legal topics, they concentrate on literary engagements with the experience of the law, revealing how people perceived the fairness of a given legal order and worked with and against regulations to adjust the rule of law to the demands of conscience. The volume updates analysis of this conflict between law and equity by drawing on the concept of 'epistemic injustice' to describe the harm done to personal identity and collective flourishing by the uneven distribution of resources and the wish to punish breaches of order. It shows how writing and reading can foment inquiries into the meanings of 'justice' and 'equity' and aid efforts to humanise the rule of law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Demson is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University. He coedited, with Christopher Clason, \u003ci\u003eRomantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and, with Regina Hewitt, \u003ci\u003eCommemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era\u003c\/i\u003e (2019). He has published articles in \u003ci\u003eEuropean Romantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRomanticism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRomantic Circles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Keats-Shelley Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nathaniel Hawthorne Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. His graphic novel, \u003ci\u003eMasks of Anarchy: From Percy Shelley to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2013. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegina Hewitt is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. Her most recent publications include \u003ci\u003eCommemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-Making during the Romantic Era\u003c\/i\u003e, co-edited with Michael Demson (2019), and an edition of \u003ci\u003eLawrie Todd\u003c\/i\u003e for the Edinburgh University Press Edition of the Works of John Galt (2023). In 2023, she was elected Chair of the John Galt Society. Formerly Co-Editor of the \u003ci\u003eEuropean Romantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e, she now serves as a Consulting Editor for that journal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900699676946,"sku":"9781399500371","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a8655de2-b89a-4a8c-a7dd-c7a6097d974d.jpg?v=1738392933","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/law-equity-and-romantic-writing-seeking-justice-in-the-age-of-revolutions-9781399500371","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}