Research Catalog

Title

Law and literature / edited by Michael Freeman and Andrew D.E. Lewis.

Publication

London ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Freeman, Michael D. A.
• Lewis, A. D. E.

Description

xxxi, 764 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Rev. papers originally presented at a conference held June 29-30, 1998, University College, London.

Series Statement

Current legal issues ; 1999, v. 2

Uniform Title

Current legal issues ; v. 2.

Subject

• Law and literature > Congresses
• Legal stories > History and criticism > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Rev. papers originally presented at a conference held June 29-30, 1998, University College, London.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface / Michael Freeman and Andrew Lewis -- 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 by adverse possession? / Richard H. Weisberg -- The law-as-literature trope / Guyora Binder -- (Per)versions of law in literature / Tony Sharpe -- Shakespeare, the narrative community and the legal imagination / Ian Ward -- Ibsen and the ascription of blame in law / John Stanton-Ife -- Tess of the D'Urdervilles and the law of provocation / Melanie Williams -- Fantasies of women as lawmakers : empowerment or entrapment in Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers / Maria Aristodemou -- 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 Gearry -- Defamation and fiction / Eric Barendt -- Art crimes / Anthony Julius -- Reading blasphemy : the necessity for literary analysis in legal scholarship / Anthony 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 Tudor treason / Mary Polito -- The Guernsey Witchcraft Trials of 1617 : the case of Collte Becquet / Matthew McGuinness -- The hidden truth of autopoiesis / Willem J. Witteveen -- What Frederick Douglass says to Kant, with help from Einstein / Wai-Chee Dimock --^
• Singular and aggregate voices : audiences and authority in law and literature and in law and feminism / Judith Resnik -- Law as performance / J.M. Balkin and Sanford Levinson.

ISBN

0198298137

LCCN

^^^99021442^

OCLC

• 40912665
• SCSB-10479003

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library