Law and Literature: Text and TheoryFirst published in 1996. 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: |
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... Woman: One Contrast Robin West Section II. Law, Justice, and Ethics Introductory Notes POETRY "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 ...
... Women in the Nineteenth Century" Caroline Norton "Big Man's Rules and Laws" Alexander Posey (Creek) Chapter XL, "The Fugitive Slave Law," and Chapter XLI, "Free at Last," Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs) ...
... Woman: One Contrast" from volume 39 Mercer Law Review (1988). Reprinted by permission of the author. James Boyd White. "The Judicial Opinion and the Poem" from Heracles' Bow by James Boyd White. Copyright © 1985 by The University of ...
... women. Finally, Robin West contrasts the Law and Literature movement with Law and Economics, and finds one key justification for Law and Literature studies in the possibility of empathy, a form of knowledge "essential to any meaningful ...
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Contents
Law Justice and Ethics | |
DRAMA | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Law and Worldview | |
Law and Punishment | |
DRAMA | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Race Class Gender and Sexuality | |
PROSE FICTION | |
PROSE NONFICTION | |
Law Language and Narrative Structure | |