Sandra Macpherson Livres

Macpherson's original insights continue to have a broad and lasting impact on the study of the novel.

The study explores the relationship between the rise of the novel and developments in liability law from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, particularly focusing on strict liability principles. Macpherson analyzes works by Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding, arguing that both the law and the novel disregard a person's state of mind in assessing responsibility. She challenges the traditional view that character takes precedence over plot in novels, ultimately asserting that the realist novel functions as a tragic form that emphasizes accountability for unforeseen consequences.

At the age of twenty-two the author cut short her nursing career in Edinburgh to marry, against enormous family pressure, the charismatic Euan Macpherson, her psychology tutor and twenty years her senior.

In addition to stories featuring members of the author's own MacPherson clan, this work also includes tales of love, battle, adventure, intrigue, danger and dark secrets, as well as accounts of witchcraft, the supernatural and the unexplained.