Publications - Suzanna Geiser

Publications

“The ‘Court of Conscience’ and ‘The Court of Justice’: Legal Ethics in Fielding’s Tom Jones, in British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. Melissa Ganz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Forthcoming 2024. 

Entries on The Trial; or, the History of Charles Horton, esq. (by Anon., 1772), The History of Lord Stanton. A Novel. (by Anon., 1775), The Murderer, a Tale (by Joseph Bounden, 1808), The Ruins of Rigonda; Or, the Homicidal Father (by Helen St. Victor, 1808), in The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, 10 vols., ed. April London (New York: Cambridge University Press). Forthcoming. 

“Punitive Injustice in Caleb Williams: Godwin’s Vexed Call for Penal Reform,” The Age of Johnson, volume 24. July 2021. 

Legal Fictions, Literary Narrative, and the Historical Truth: The Jurisprudence of Marriage in the Long Eighteenth Century (Dissertation), available here. May 2018. 

“Writing in Law,” 2019-2020 Tar Heel Writing Guide, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-CH.