Mrs Donoghue and The Law's Strange Neighbour: New Narratives of Modernist Trauma

van Rijswijk, HM

Mrs Donoghue and The Law's Strange Neighbour: New Narratives of Modernist Trauma

van Rijswijk, HM

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Publisher:: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Remaking Literary History, 2010, First, pp. 155 - 166
Issue Date:: 2010-01

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dc.contributor.author	van Rijswijk, HM https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9180-0078	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Sheehan, P	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Groth, H	en_US
dc.date.issued	2010-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Remaking Literary History, 2010, First, pp. 155 - 166	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	1443814245	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/14409
dc.description.abstract	There is a strange English case, one that is also a quintessentially modernist text, which all students of the common law are taught. In this case, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, the House of Lords reformulated the responsibility owed by one person to another in civil society, (despite its legal importance, it is irreverently known as "the-snailin- the-bottle case"). The case has had a hold on the imagination of lawyers ever since it was heard in 1932; but as to why this case matters so much to lawyers, and why it should also matter to modernists, I need to start by telling a story. Like all good stories, this one starts with a journey-Mrs May Donoghue's tram trip from her tenement in the heart of Glasgow to the Welhneadow Cafe in Paisley.	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing	en_US
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dc.title	Mrs Donoghue and The Law's Strange Neighbour: New Narratives of Modernist Trauma	en_US
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Abstract:

There is a strange English case, one that is also a quintessentially modernist text, which all students of the common law are taught. In this case, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, the House of Lords reformulated the responsibility owed by one person to another in civil society, (despite its legal importance, it is irreverently known as "the-snailin- the-bottle case"). The case has had a hold on the imagination of lawyers ever since it was heard in 1932; but as to why this case matters so much to lawyers, and why it should also matter to modernists, I need to start by telling a story. Like all good stories, this one starts with a journey-Mrs May Donoghue's tram trip from her tenement in the heart of Glasgow to the Welhneadow Cafe in Paisley.

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