Critical Introduction to Law and Literature

Klappentext This 2007 text charts the history of the shifting relations between law and literature, from the Renaissance to contemporary culture. Zusammenfassung Kieran Dolin charts the history of the shifting relations between law and literature! from the Renaissance to contemporary culture. Originally published in 2007! this book provides an accessible guide to one of the most exciting areas of interdisciplinary scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction: law and literature: walking the boundary with Robert Frost and the Supreme Court; Part I. Eminent Domains: The Text of the Law and the Law of the Text: 1. Law's language; 2. Literature under the law; Part II. Law and Literature in History: 3. Renaissance humanism and the new culture of contract; 4. Crime and punishment in the eighteenth century; 5. The woman question in Victorian England; 6. The Common Law and the ache of modernism; 7. Rumpole in Africa: law, literature and post-colonial society; 8. Race and representation in contemporary America; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Kieran Dolin, Kieran (University of Western Australia Dolin, Dolin Kieran
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521002028
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00202-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, Literary studies: general, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence and general issues