UID:
edocfu_9960118903902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (ix, 387 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781108386005
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1-108-39525-2
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1-108-39729-8
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1-108-38600-8
Serie:
Cambridge critical concepts series
Inhalt:
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 examines the effects of law on writers and their work, ranging from classical tragedy to comics, and from East Africa to Elizabethan England. Over twenty chapters, contributors reveal the intricate and multivalent historical interactions between law and literature, both past and present, and trace the intellectual genesis of the concept of law in literary studies, focusing on major developments in the history of the interdisciplinary project of law and literature, as well as the changing ideas of law, and the cultural contests in which it has figured. Law and Literature will appeal to graduates and scholars working on the intersection between law and literature and in key related areas such as literature and human rights.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2018).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Origins -- Chapter 1 The Revival of Legal Humanism -- Chapter 2 Law Meets Critical Theory -- Meeting Places: Law Schools and English Departments -- Interpreting the Legal Text: Law, Literature, Deconstruction -- Investigating the Legal Unconscious: Law, Literature, Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 3 Narrative and Law -- Law, Literature, and Narrative Jurisprudence -- ''A kind of squalid Dreyfus case'': George Edalji, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Court of Public Appeal -- ''Three-quarters of justice'': Plot, Character, and the Self-Believed Story in Arthur & George -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Law and Literature and History -- Disciplinary Barriers -- Lest Law and Literature Forget: Richard H. Weisberg and History -- A History of Truth across the Disciplines: Barbara Shapiro's ''Beyond Reasonable Doubt'' and ''Probable Cause'': Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence -- Formalism Has a History: Alexander Welsh's Strong Representations (1992) -- Telling a Difference Story: Carole Pateman's The Sexual Contract (1988) -- Witnessing History/Achieving Justice -- Part II Development -- Chapter 5 Law and Literature in the Ancient World: The Case of Phryne -- Chapter 6 The ''Parallel Evolutions'' of Medieval Law and Literature -- The Emergence of Law and Literature -- The Opposition between Law and Literature -- Nostalgia and Innovation: The Case of Geoffrey of Monmouth -- Chapter 7 Literature and Equity in Early Modern England -- Equity in Law, Religion, and Politics -- Literature and Equity -- Chapter 8 Gender, Law, and the Birth of Bourgeois Civil Society -- The Juridical Imagination: The Domestic Novel and Domestic Relations -- Reimagining the Family: Enacting the Law beyond the Law.
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Restructuring the Court System: Synthesizing the Law -- Replacing the Legal Record: Circulating the Law -- Reimagining the Law: Prison or Utopia? -- Chapter 9 Romanticism, Gothic, and the Law -- Depictions of Trials in the Gothic -- Depictions of Imprisonment in the Gothic -- Depictions of Legal Documents and the Gothic as Documentary -- Conclusion: Impossible Justice -- Chapter 10 Strange Cases in Victorian England -- A Culture of Legality -- The Case as a Cultural Form -- Chapter 11 Forming the Nation in Nineteenth-Century America -- Membership -- Labor -- A Nation among Nations -- Chapter 12 Legal Modernism -- Introduction -- A Formal Subject -- From One Law to Another -- Chapter 13 Representing Lawyers in Contemporary American Literature: The Case of O. J. Simpson -- The New Lawyer in American Culture -- Law and Literature -- American Crime Story -- The Politics of the Camp Lawyer -- Race, Then and Now -- Conclusion: Television and History -- Chapter 14 Law in Contemporary Anglophone Literature -- Poetry in the Dock: Words in Action -- Test Cases: Sentences of the Law -- Chapter 15 Narrative and Legal Plurality in Postcolonial Nations: Chapter and Verse from the East African Court of Appeal -- Introduction -- Chapter and Verse -- Abdullah bin Sheikh bin Yunis on behalf of the Thalatha Thaifa and W. N. MacMillan v. (1) The Wakf Commissioners -- (2) The Land Officer on behalf of H. M. Government of East Africa [1913] 12 EACA 54 -- Songs of Two Towers -- Verse and Chapter -- Reading One: Evidence -- Adverse and Inadvertent -- Reading Two: Rhetoric -- Version and Reversion -- Reading Three: Rights -- Obverse and Universe -- Conclusion -- Songs of Three Places -- Part III Applications -- Chapter 16 Literary Representation and Social Justice in an Age of Civil Rights: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird -- Race in/and American Law.
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The Federalism Debate -- The Rule of Law and Its Importance in American Culture and History -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 17 Trauma, Narrative, and Literary or Legal Justice -- Introduction -- Trauma and the Law -- Comics and Narrating Trauma -- Four Immigrants Manga -- Conclusion -- Chapter 18 The Regulation of Authorship: Literary Property and the Aesthetics of Resistance -- Authors and the Things They Make -- The Aesthetics of Authorial Labor -- An Aesthetics of Resistance -- Chapter 19 Cases as Cultural Events: Privacy, the Hossack Trial and Susan Glaspell's ''A Jury of Her Peers'' -- Privacy and the 1901 Hossack Murder Case -- ''A Jury of Her Peers'' as Literary Critique of Privacy -- ''A Jury of Her Peers'' and the Opening of Private Space -- Film and the Construction of Private Space -- Conclusion -- Chapter 20 Creativity and Censorship Laws: Lessons from the 1920s -- Bibliography -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-108-42281-0
Sprache:
Englisch
