Introduction; 1. Trappings of a transnational gaze: legal and sentimental
confinement in Sterne's novels; 2. Reinstitutionalising the common law:
Bentham on the security and flexibility of legal rules; 3. Aporias of
retribution and questions of responsibility: classifying the legacy of
incarceration in Dickens's Bleak House; 4. A curse gone recursive: the case
and cause of solidarity in Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'; 5.
Conclusion.

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