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Law and literature / edited by Kieran Dolin.

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"Law and Literature presents an authoritative, fresh and accessible new overview of the many ways in which law and literature interact. Written by a team of international experts, it provides a multi-focused history of literary studies' critical interest in ideas of law and justice. It exa...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Dolin, Kieran (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2017]
Series:Cambridge critical concepts.
Subjects:
Law and literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Kieran Dolin
  • The revival of legal humanism / Klaus Stierstorfer
  • Law meets critical theory / Peter Leman
  • Narrative and law / Cathrine O. Frank
  • Law and literature and history / Christine L. Krueger
  • Law and literature in the ancient world : the case of Phryne / Ioannis Ziogas
  • The "parallel evolutions" of medieval law and literature / Stephen Yeager
  • Literature and equity in early modern England / Mark Fortier
  • Gender, law and the birth of bourgeois civil society / Cheryl Nixon
  • Romanticism, Gothic and the law / Bridget M. Marshall
  • Strange cases in Victorian England / Kieran Dolin
  • Forming the nation in nineteenth-century America / Nan Goodman
  • Legal modernism / Rex Ferguson
  • Representing lawyers in contemporary American literature : the case of O.J. Simpson / Diana Louis Shahinyan
  • Law in contemporary Anglophone literature / Eugene McNulty
  • Narrative and legal plurality in postcolonial nations : chapter and verse from the East African Court of Appeal / Stephanie Jones
  • Literary representation and social justice in an age of civil rights : Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird / Helle Porsdam
  • Trauma, narrative, and literary or legal justice / Golnar Nabizadeh
  • The regulation of authorship : literary property and the aesthetics of resistance / Robin Wharton
  • Cases as cultural events : privacy, the Hossack trial and Susan Glaspell's "A journey of her peers" / Marco Wan
  • Creativity and censorship laws : lessons from the 1920s / Nancy Paxton.

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