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Law and Literature
Current Legal Issues 1999
Volume 2

Edited by Michael Freeman and Andrew D. E. Lewis

Price: £95.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829813-7
Publication date: 5 August 1999
800 pages, 214x134 mm
 Series: Current Legal Issues
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Reviews
  • 'the contributors have staked out their own distinctive approaches.' - Ray Cocks, Lawful Literature, Keele University.
  • 'This is very much an international collection, with strong trans-atlantic representation. The contrasts between English and american approaches are particularly instructive.' - Ray Cocks, Lawful Literature, Keele University.
  • 'no review could do full justice to its variety of topic and approach. It is a fine collection.' - Ray Cocks, Lawful Literature, Keele University.

Description
  • Second volume in the series whose sister publication Current Legal Problems is very well known and highly regarded
  • Interdisciplinary with a wide range of material covering law, history, literature, and philosophy
  • Lively case-studies that are international in breadth
  • The most comprehensive collection on law and literature in Britain
Law and Literature , the second volume in the Current Legal Issues series, is a comprehensive and provocative treatment of an exciting new area that will stimulate and enlighten anyone interested in law as it appears in literature. Future volumes will include such subjects such as law and medicine and law and religion.

Law is literature but it also appears frequently in literature. The trial itself has features in common with literature, and law and literature both require interpretation. Literature may be constrained by the law and the law of defamation or blasphemy as, for example, the Salman Rushdie affair so vividly illustrates. All of these wide-ranging topics of relating law to literature are explored in this state of the art volume written by leading thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic.

Texts analysed range from drama to novels to film and musical performance and interpretation to the Bible. Trials dissected include the Eichmann and M'Naughten cases and treason and witchcraft trials.

The range of subjects includes legal ethics, punishment, responsibility, colonialism, violence, and feminism.

Readership: This book will be of general interest to all Law academics and students. It will be of especial interest to scholars concerned with the relationship of Law and Literature, philosophers, historians, and critics of literature and literacy.

Contents
Editor's Preface , Michael Freeman
Introduction , Anthony Julius
Writing and Reading in Philosophy, Law, and Poetry , James Boyd White
Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship as Guilty Pleasure: The Case of Law and Literature , Jane B. Baron
Literature's Twenty-Year Crossing into the Domain of Law: Continuing Trespass or Right of Adverse Possession , Richard H. Weisberg
The Law-as-Literature Trope , Guyora Binder
Per(versions) of Law in Literature , Tony Sharpe
Shakespeare, the Native Community, and the Legal Imagination , Ian Ward
Ibsen and the Inscription of Blame in Law , John Stanton-Ife
Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the Law of Provocation , Melanie Williams
Fantasies of Women as Lawmakers: Empowerment or Entrapment in Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers , Maria Aristomedou
From Bette Davis to Mrs Whitehouse: Law and Literature - Theory and Practice , Michael Thomson
`How can ye criticise what's plain law, man?: The Lawyer, the Novelist, and the Discourse of Authority , Marie Hockenhull Smith
The Bible, Law, and Liberation: Towards a Politico-Legal Hermeneutics of the Sermon on the Mount , Adam Gearey
Rivka Yoselewska on the Stand: The Structure of Legality and the Construction of Heroic memory at the Eichmann Trial , Lawrence Douglas
The `Final Struggle': A Discoursal, Rhetorical, and Social Analysis of Two Closing Arguments , Jill Tomasson Goodwin
Crossing the Literary Modernist Divide at Century's End: The Turn to Translation and the Invention of Identity in America's Story of Origins , Gary Minda
Lawyers and Introspection , Thomas Morawetz
Translation and Judicial Ethos: Some Remarks on James Boyd White's Proposal for the Harmony of the Spheres , Jeanne Gaakeer
The Sovereign Self: Identity and Responsibility in Victorian England , Simon Petch
Is Literature More Ethical than Law? Fitzjames Stephen and Literary Responses to the Advent of Full Legal Representation for Felons , Jan-Melissa Schramm
Victorian Narrative Jurisprudence , Christine L. Krueger
`Born Pious, Literary, and Legal': Lord Coleridge's Criticisms in Law and Literature , Ray Geary
Defamation and Fiction , Eric Barendt
Art Crimes , Anthony Julius
Reading Blasphemy: The Necessity for Literary Analysis in Legal Scholarship , Tony Bradney
Capturing Childhood: The Indian Child in the European Imagination , Anne McGillivray
Legalizing Violence: Fanon, Romance, Colonial Law , Gary Boire
Governing Bodies Tempering Tongues: Elizabeth Barton and the Politics of the Performative in Early Tudor England , Mary Polito
The Guernsey Witchcraft Trials of 1617: The Case of Collette Becquet , Matthew McGuinness
The Hidden Truth of Autopoiesis , William J. Witteveen
What Frederick Douglass Says to Kanto, with Help from Einstein , Wai-Chee Dimock
Singular and Aggregate Voices: Audiences and Authority in Law & Literature and in Law & Feminism , Judith Resnick
Law as Performance , J. M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson
Editor's Preface , Michael Freeman
Introduction , Anthony Julius
Writing and Reading in Philosophy, Law, and Poetry , James Boyd White
Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship as Guilty Pleasure: The Case of Law and Literature , Jane B. Baron
Literature's Twenty-Year Crossing into the Domain of Law: Continuing Trespass or Right of Adverse Possession , Richard H. Weisberg
The Law-as-Literature Trope , Guyora Binder
Per(versions) of Law in Literature , Tony Sharpe
Shakespeare, the Native Community, and the Legal Imagination , Ian Ward
Ibsen and the Inscription of Blame in Law , John Stanton-Ife
Tess of the d'Urbervilles and the Law of Provocation , Melanie Williams
Fantasies of Women as Lawmakers: Empowerment or Entrapment in Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers , Maria Aristomedou
From Bette Davis to Mrs Whitehouse: Law and Literature - Theory and Practice , Michael Thomson
`How can ye criticise what's plain law, man?: The Lawyer, the Novelist, and the Discourse of Authority , Marie Hockenhull Smith
The Bible, Law, and Liberation: Towards a Politico-Legal Hermeneutics of the Sermon on the Mount , Adam Gearey
Rivka Yoselewska on the Stand: The Structure of Legality and the Construction of Heroic memory at the Eichmann Trial , Lawrence Douglas
The `Final Struggle': A Discoursal, Rhetorical, and Social Analysis of Two Closing Arguments , Jill Tomasson Goodwin
Crossing the Literary Modernist Divide at Century's End: The Turn to Translation and the Invention of Identity in America's Story of Origins , Gary Minda
Lawyers and Introspection , Thomas Morawetz
Translation and Judicial Ethos: Some Remarks on James Boyd White's Proposal for the Harmony of the Spheres , Jeanne Gaakeer
The Sovereign Self: Identity and Responsibility in Victorian England , Simon Petch
Is Literature More Ethical than Law? Fitzjames Stephen and Literary Responses to the Advent of Full Legal Representation for Felons , Jan-Melissa Schramm
Victorian Narrative Jurisprudence , Christine L. Krueger
`Born Pious, Literary, and Legal': Lord Coleridge's Criticisms in Law and Literature , Ray Geary
Defamation and Fiction , Eric Barendt
Art Crimes , Anthony Julius
Reading Blasphemy: The Necessity for Literary Analysis in Legal Scholarship , Tony Bradney
Capturing Childhood: The Indian Child in the European Imagination , Anne McGillivray
Legalizing Violence: Fanon, Romance, Colonial Law , Gary Boire
Governing Bodies Tempering Tongues: Elizabeth Barton and the Politics of the Performative in Early Tudor England , Mary Polito
The Guernsey Witchcraft Trials of 1617: The Case of Collette Becquet , Matthew McGuinness
The Hidden Truth of Autopoiesis , William J. Witteveen
What Frederick Douglass Says to Kanto, with Help from Einstein , Wai-Chee Dimock
Singular and Aggregate Voices: Audiences and Authority in Law & Literature and in Law & Feminism , Judith Resnick
Law as Performance , J. M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Michael Freeman, Professor of English Law and
Andrew D. E. Lewis, Senior Lecturer in Law, both at University College, London


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