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Law and Literature presents a comprehensive overview of literature's critical interest in and historical interactions with ideas of law and justice.
List 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.
About the author
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).
Summary
Law and Literature presents an accessible new study of the many ways in which law and literature interact by providing a multi-focused history of literature's critical interest in ideas of law and justice, ranging from classical tragedy to comics, and from East Africa to Elizabethan England.
