Law and Literature Current Legal Issues 1999

This comprehensive and provocative second volume of a new series entitled 'Current Legal Issues' shows that although law is literature, it also features in literature such as Shakespeare, Dickens, and Hardy. Texts analyzed range from drama to novels to film and musical performance and interpretation to the Bible. It is to be published each Spring as a sister volume to 'Current Legal Problems'.

Michael Freeman is Editor in Chief of Current Legal Publications and Editor of Current Legal Problems, and Professor of English Law at University College, London.
Andrew D.E. Lewis is Associate Editor of Current Legal Publications and General Editor of Current Legal Issues, and Senior Lecturer in Law at University College, London

Preface

ix

(2)

Michael Freeman

Andrew Lewis

Introduction

xi

(16)

Anthony Julius

Notes on Contributors

xxvii

Writing and Reading in Philosophy, Law and Poetry

1

(20)

James Boyd White

Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship as Guilty Pleasure: The Case of Law and Poetry

21

(26)

Jane B. Baron

Literature's Twenty-Year Crossing Into the Domain of Law: Continuing Trespass or Right by Adverse Possession?

47

(16)

Richard H. Weisberg

The Law-as-Literature Trope

63

(28)

Guyora Binder

(Per)versions of Law in Literature

91

(26)

Tony Sharpe

Shakespeare, the Narrative Community and the Legal Imagination

117

(32)

Ian Ward

Ibsen and the Ascription of Blame in Law

149

(18)

John Stanton-Ife

Tess of the D'Urbervilles and the Law of Provocation

167

(24)

Melanie Williams

Fantasies of Women as Lawmakers: Empowerment or Entrapment in Angela Carter's Bloody Chambers

191

(28)

Maria Aristodemou

From Bette Davis to Mrs Whitehouse: Law and Literature--Theory and Practice

219

(20)

Michael Thomson

`How can ye criticise what's plain law, man?': The Lawyer, the Novelist and the Discourse of Authority

239

(24)

Marie Hockenhull Smith

The Bible, Law and Liberation: Towards a Politico-Legal Hermeneutics of the Sermon on the Mount

263

(22)

Adam Gearey

Rivka Yoselewska on the Stand: The Structure of Legality and the Construction of Heroic Memory at the Eichmann Trial

285

(16)

Lawrence Douglas

The `Final Struggle': A Discoursal, Rhetorical, and Social Analysis of Two Closing Arguments

301

(22)

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

323

(32)

Gary Minda

Lawyers and Introspection

355

(20)

Thomas Morawetz

Translation and Judicial Ethos: Some Remarks on James Boyd White's Proposal for the Harmony of the Spheres

375

(22)

Jeanne Gaakeer

The Sovereign Self: Identity and Responsibility in Victorian England

397

(20)

Simon Petch

Is Literature More Ethical than Law? Fitzjames Stephen and Literary Responses to the Advent of Full Legal Representation for Felons

417

(20)

Jan-Melissa Schramm

Victorian Narrative Jurisprudence

437

(26)

Christine L. Krueger

`Born Pious, Literary, and Legal': Lord Coleridge's Criticisms in Law and Literature

463

(18)

Ray Geary

Defamation and Fiction

481

(18)

Eric Barendt

Art Crimes

499

(34)

Anthony Julius

Reading Blasphemy: The Necessity for Literary Analysis in Legal Scholarship

533

(22)

Anthony Bradney

Capturing Childhood: The Indian Child in the European Imagination

555

(26)

Anne McGillivray

Legalizing Violence: Fanon, Romance, Colonial Law

581

(22)

Gary Boire

Governing Bodies, Tempering Tongues: Elizabeth Barton and Tudor Treason

603

(20)

Mary Polito

The Guernsey Witchcraft Trials of 1617: The Case of Collete Becquet

623

(22)

Matthew McGuinness

The Hidden Truth of Autopoiesis

645

(22)

Willem J. Witteveen

What Frederick Douglass Says to Kant, With Help from Einstein

667

(20)

Wai-Chee Dimock

Singular and Aggregate Voices: Audiences and Authority in Law & Literature and in Law & Feminism

687

(42)

Judith Resnik

Law as Performance

729

J. M. Balkin

Sanford Levinson

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Law and Literature Current Legal Issues 1999 Volume 2

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