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Law and Literature Text and Theory

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ISBN-10: 0815320469

ISBN-13: 9780815320463

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Lenora Ledwon

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The first anthology of its kind in this dynamic new field of study, this volume offers students the best of both worlds-theory and literature. Organized around specific themes to facilitate use of the text in a variety of courses, the material is highly accessible to undergraduates and is suitable as well for graduate students and law students. The anthology includes important articles by key figures in the law and literature debate, and presents seven thematically arranged sections that: Survey the various theoretical perspectives that inform the relationship of law and literature Examine the interplay of ethics, law, and justice * Highlight the great scope and variety of the law's…    
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Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 518
Size: 6.42" wide x 8.98" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Judicial Opinion and the Poem: Ways of Reading, Ways of Life
How Law Is Like Literature
Working on the Chain Gang: Interpretation in Law and Literature
Law and Literature: A Relation Reargued
Convergences: Law, Literature, and Feminism
Economic Man and Literary Woman: One Contrast
"To Edwin V. McKenzie: On His Defense of David Lamson"; "To a Woman on Her Defense of Her Brother Unjustly Convicted of Murder: Written after an Initial Study of the Evidence"; "To David Lamson: Awaiting Retrial, in the Jail at San Jose"
"The Defence of Guenevere"
Trifles
Chapter 6, Anatomy of a Murder
Chapter 1, Diary of a Yuppie
"The Law," The Floating Opera
"On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"
"Apology"
"Law Like Love"
"Hamilton Greene," Spoon River Anthology
Act I, Scene VI, Saint Joan
Chapter I, "In Chancery," Bleak House
"Before the Law," The Trial
"Bartleby the Scrivener"
"Address to the Prisoners in the Cook County Jail"
"On Teaching the Legality of Televising Capital Punishments"
"Porphyria's Lover"
Act 4, Scene 1, The Merchant of Venice
Part II, Chapters 3 and 4; A Clockwork Orange
Chapter 43, "The Verdict," Adam Bede
"Panopticism, Discipline and Punish"
"Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane"
Act I, Scenes 9-11; Zoot Suit
Act I, Scenes 5 and 6; Bent
"Jim's Capture," Huckleberry Finn
Chapter 19, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Lemorne versus Huell"
Excerpt from "English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century"
"Big Man's Rules and Laws"
Chapter XL, "The Fugitive Slave Law," and Chapter XLI, "Free at Last," Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
"Men Made Out of Words"
Excerpt from Act Two, A Man for All Seasons
"Wandering Willie's Tale," Redgauntlet
Chapter XI, "Who Stole the Tarts?" and Chapter XII, "Alice's Evidence," Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"Realism and the Novel Form," The Rise of the Novel
"Poor Richard's Opinion"
Trial By Jury
Chapter 6, "Expectations," The Associates
Chapter 4, The Shortest Way to Hades
"The Mythos of Spring: Comedy," Anatomy of Criticism