Law and Literature Current Legal Issues 1999 Volume 2

by Freeman, Michael; Lewis, Andrew D. E.

• ISBN13: 9780198298137
• ISBN10: 0198298137
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-09-23
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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'.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

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