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Law and Literature
Current Legal Issues Volume 2
Edited by Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis
796 pages
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214x134mm
978-0-19-829813-7
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Hardback
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05 August 1999
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- Second volume in the series whose sister publication Current Legal Problems is very well known and highly regarded
- Interdisciplinary with a wide range of material covering law, history, literature, and philosophy
- Lively case-studies that are international in breadth
- The most comprehensive collection on law and literature in Britain
Law and Literature, the second volume in the Current Legal Issues series, is a comprehensive and provocative treatment of an exciting new area that will stimulate and enlighten anyone interested in law as it appears in literature. Future volumes will include such subjects such as law and medicine and law and religion.
Law is literature but it also appears frequently in literature. The trial itself has features in common with literature, and law and literature both require interpretation. Literature may be constrained by the law and the law of defamation or blasphemy as, for example, the Salman Rushdie affair so vividly
illustrates. All of these wide-ranging topics of relating law to literature are explored in this state of the art volume written by leading thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic.
Texts analysed range from drama to novels to film and musical performance and interpretation to the Bible. Trials dissected include the Eichmann and M'Naughten cases and treason and witchcraft trials.
The range of subjects includes legal ethics, punishment, responsibility, colonialism, violence, and feminism.Readership: This book will be of general interest to all Law academics and students. It will be of especial interest to scholars concerned with the relationship of Law and
Literature, philosophers, historians, and critics of literature and literacy.
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Edited by Michael Freeman, Professor of English Law, University College, London, and Andrew Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Law, University College, London
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"the contributors have staked out their own distinctive approaches." - Ray Cocks, Lawful Literature, Keele University.
"This is very much an international collection, with strong trans-atlantic representation. The contrasts between English and american approaches are particularly instructive." - Ray Cocks, Lawful Literature, Keele University.
"no review could do full justice to its variety of topic and approach. It is a fine collection." - Ray Cocks, Lawful Literature, Keele University.
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Michael Freeman: Editor's Preface
Anthony Julius: Introduction
James Boyd White: Writing and Reading in Philosophy, Law, and Poetry
Jane B. Baron: Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship as Guilty Pleasure: The Case of Law and Literature
Richard H. Weisberg: Literature's Twenty-Year Crossing into the Domain of Law: Continuing Trespass or Right of Adverse Possession
Guyora Binder: The Law-as-Literature Trope
Tony Sharpe: Per(versions) of Law in Literature
Ian Ward: Shakespeare, the Native Community, and the Legal Imagination
John Stanton-Ife: Ibsen and the Inscription of Blame in Law
Melanie Williams: Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the Law of Provocation
Maria Aristomedou: Fantasies of Women as Lawmakers: Empowerment or Entrapment in Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers
Michael Thomson: From Bette Davis to Mrs Whitehouse: Law and Literature - Theory and Practice
Marie Hockenhull Smith: `How can ye criticise what's plain law, man?: The Lawyer, the Novelist, and the Discourse of Authority
Adam Gearey: The Bible, Law, and Liberation: Towards a Politico-Legal Hermeneutics of the Sermon on the Mount
Lawrence Douglas: Rivka Yoselewska on the Stand: The Structure of Legality and the Construction of Heroic memory at the Eichmann Trial
Jill Tomasson Goodwin: The `Final Struggle': A Discoursal, Rhetorical, and Social Analysis of Two Closing Arguments
Gary Minda: Crossing the Literary Modernist Divide at Century's End: The Turn to Translation and the Invention of Identity in America's Story of Origins
Thomas Morawetz: Lawyers and Introspection
Jeanne Gaakeer: Translation and Judicial Ethos: Some Remarks on James Boyd White's Proposal for the Harmony of the Spheres
Simon Petch: The Sovereign Self: Identity and Responsibility in Victorian England
Jan-Melissa Schramm: Is Literature More Ethical than Law? Fitzjames Stephen and Literary Responses to the Advent of Full Legal Representation for Felons
Christine L. Krueger: Victorian Narrative Jurisprudence
Ray Geary: `Born Pious, Literary, and Legal': Lord Coleridge's Criticisms in Law and Literature
Eric Barendt: Defamation and Fiction
Anthony Julius: Art Crimes
Tony Bradney: Reading Blasphemy: The Necessity for Literary Analysis in Legal Scholarship
Anne McGillivray: Capturing Childhood: The Indian Child in the European Imagination
Gary Boire: Legalizing Violence: Fanon, Romance, Colonial Law
Mary Polito: Governing Bodies Tempering Tongues: Elizabeth Barton and the Politics of the Performative in Early Tudor England
Matthew McGuinness: The Guernsey Witchcraft Trials of 1617: The Case of Collette Becquet
William J. Witteveen: The Hidden Truth of Autopoiesis
Wai-Chee Dimock: What Frederick Douglass Says to Kanto, with Help from Einstein
Judith Resnick: Singular and Aggregate Voices: Audiences and Authority in Law & Literature and in Law & Feminism
J. M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson: Law as Performance
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