(Source: Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge
University Press recently published a book on “Law and Literature”, which aims
to provide a multi-focused history of literary studies' critical interest in
ideas of law and justice.
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Kieran Dolin,
University of Western Australia, Perth
Kieran Dolin is
Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of
Western Australia, Perth. He is the author of Fiction and the Law (Cambridge,
1999) and A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature (Cambridge, 2007).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Kieran Dolin
Part I. Origins:
1. The revival
of legal humanism Klaus Stierstorfer
2. Law meets
critical theory Peter Leman
3. Narrative and
law Cathrine O. Frank
4. Law and
literature and history Christine L. Krueger
Part II.
Development:
5. Law and
literature in the ancient world Ioannis Ziogas
6. The 'parallel
evolutions' of medieval law and literature Stephen Yeager
7. Literature
and equity in early modern England Mark Fortier
8. Gender, law
and the birth of bourgeois civil society Cheryl Nixon
9. Romanticism,
Gothicism and law Bridget Marshall
10. Strange
cases in Victorian Britain: Browning to Wilde Kieran Dolin
11. Forming the
nation in nineteenth-century America Nan Goodman
12. Legal
modernism Rex Ferguson
13. Representing
lawyers in contemporary American literature: the case of O. J. Simpson Diana
Shahinyan
14. Law in
contemporary Anglophone literature Eugene McNulty
15. Narrative
and legal plurality in postcolonial nations: chapter and verse from the East
African Court of appeal Stephanie Jones
Part III.
Applications:
16. Literary
representations and social justice in an age of civil rights: Harper Lee's To
Kill a Mockingbird Helle Porsdam
17. Trauma,
narrative and literary or legal justice Golnar Nabizadeh
18. The
regulation of authorship: literary property and the aesthetics of distance
Robin Wharton
19. Cases as
cultural events: privacy, the Hossack Trial and Susan Glaspell's 'A Journey of
her Peers' Marco Wan
20. Creativity
and censorship laws: lessons from the 1920s Nancy Paxton.
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