Preface, Diane P. Wood
Introduction, Alison L. LaCroix and Martha C. Nussbaum
Part One
1. The Moral and Legal Consequences of Wife Selling in The Mayor of Casterbridge, Julie C. Suk
2. Jude the Obscure: The Irrelevance of Marriage Law, Amanda Claybaugh
3. The History of Obscenity, the British Novel, and the First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone
4. Jane Austen: Comedy and Social Structure, Richard A. Posner
Part Two
5. Pious Perjury in Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, Julia Simon-Kerr
6. Rape, Seduction, Purity, and Shame in Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Marcia Baron
7. The Stain of Illegitimacy: Gender, Law, and Trollopian Subversion, Martha C. Nussbaum
8. Could He Forgive Her? Gender, Agency, and Women's Criminality in the Novels of Anthony Trollope, Nicola Lacey
Part Three
9. Law, Commerce, and Gender in Trollope's Framley Parsonage, Douglas G. Baird
10. Primogeniture, Legal Change, and Trollope, Saul Levmore
11. Defoe's Formal Laws, Bernadette Meyler
Part Four
12. The Lawyer's Library in the Early American Republic, Alison L. LaCroix
13. Proposals and Performative Utterance in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Professional Man's Plight, Robert A. Ferguson
14. A Comeuppance Theory of Narrative and the Emotions, Blakey Vermeule