A Critical introduction to law and literature

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Law and literature.

Law in literature.

1. Law's language --2. Literature under the law --3. Renaissance humanism and the new culture of contract --4. Crime and punishment in the eighteenth century --5. The woman question in Victorian England --6. The common law and the ache of modernism --7. Rumpole in Africa: law and literature in post-colonial society --8. Race and representation in contemporary America.

Kieran Dolin introduces this interdisciplinary field and charts the history of the shifting relations between the two disciplines, from the open affiliation between literature and law in the sixteenth-century Inns of Court to the less visible links of contemporary culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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viii, 263 p.