Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature

Edited by Robert Spoo, Leonard L. Milberg '53 Professor in Irish Letters, Department of English, Princeton University, USA and Simon Stern, Professor of Law and English, University of Toronto, Canada

‘This Encyclopedia is wonderfully versatile. Many of its scholarly entries serve as primers on the key principles and analytic tools for understanding the rich interactions between legal thinking and writing and literary and rhetorical forms. Others exhibit dazzling creativity in identifying the catalytic relationships between law literature as sources of insight into all manner of social, political, and economic issues,placing them in a richly generative cultural context. Overall, this is an indispensable guide to the capacious world of law and the Humanities.’

• ContentsPreface xiii1 Abolition 1Jess A. Goldberg2 Admiralty and maritime law 5Hayley Cotter3 Adultery 9Erin Sheley4 Advertising 13Anat Rosenberg5 Affect 17Kathryn Temple6 Aggadah and Halakha:literature alongside law 21Shulamit Almog7 Atrocity, law, and literature 23Richard H. Weisberg8 Authorship and publishing 27Mark Rose9 Automobiles 31Kieran Tranter10 Biblical law 35Yael Landman11 Black Lives Matter poetry 38Almas Khan12 Blackmail 42Joseph Bristow13 Blasphemy culture, blasphemy law 46Elliott Visconsi14 Body 49Jolene Zigarovich15 Canon law 53Grace Delmolino16 Canonization, canons, canon formation 57Peter Schneck17 Causation 61Thomas Dikant18 Censorship, informal and formal 65Jay A. Gertzman19 Citizenship 70Leti Volpp20 Civil law 74Jeanne Gaakeer21 Civil rights 78Charlton Copeland22 Climate change 82Andrew Majeske23 Clinical legal education froma humanistic perspective 86Flora Di Donato24 Comedy and the law 91Lars Engle25 Common law reasoning 94Maksymilian Del Mar26 Confession 98Peter Brooks27 Consent in literary works 102Sara Murphy28 Contract and boilerplate 106Tal Kastner29 Copyright: characters and adaptation 110Betsy Rosenblatt30 Copyright: scènes à faire 114Zahr K. Said31 Copyright and journalism 118Will Slauter32 Copyright in the theatre 122Derek Miller33 Corporation 126Peter Jaros34 Courtrooms (eighteenth- andnineteenth-century, British) 131Adam Kozaczka35 Crime fiction 135Guyora Binder36 Death penalty 140Birte Christ37 Defamation 144Sean Latham38 Despotism 148Adam Schoene39 Detective fiction 152Simon Stern40 Divine accommodation andthe legal imagination 155Nomi Maya Stolzenberg41 Early New England law 159Nan Goodman42 Eighth Amendment and ‘crueland unusual’ punishment 163Lisa Haber-Thomson43 Environmental (or nonhuman)personhood 168Paul K. Saint-Amour44 Equity 172Mark Fortier45 Ethics: law and literature as anethical enterprise 175David S. Caudill46 Evidence (early modern law and drama) 179Lorna Hutson47 Evidence (fiction and narrative) 183Geoffrey A. Baker48 Fan fiction 187Rebecca Tushnet49 Felony 191Elise Wang50 Film industry 195Peter Decherney51 Forgery (financial, historical,and literary) 198Mark Osteen52 Forgery (literary and cultural) 203Gregory Mackie53 Free speech 206Trevor Ross54 Freedom suit 210Faith Barter55 Fundamentalism 214Klaus Stierstorfer56 Gender and modernism 218Celia Marshik57 Gothic fictions 222Jayne Lewis58 Guardianship 226Sarah Raff59 Habeas corpus 230Sarah Winter60 Hate speech 234Martha M. Umphrey61 Higher law 238Geoffrey R. Kirsch62 Human rights 242Elizabeth S. Anker63 Identification and identity 246Rex Ferguson64 Identification papers 249Nissa Ren Cannon65 Imperialism 253Tanya Agathocleous66 Incarceration 257Monika Fludernik67 Indigenous law 261Cheryl Suzack68 Informal norms 265Matthew H. Birkhold69 Infrastructure and public works 268David Alff70 Inheritance law 272Rose Casey71 Inns of Court 276Jessica Apolloni72 Intention 280Lisa Siraganian73 Jurisdiction 284Edward Mussawir74 Justice, theories of 287Jennifer Jahner75 Law on television 291William MacNeil76 Lawyers in novels 295Mark Schoenfield77 Lawyers on US television 299Christine Corcos78 Legal fictions 304Simon Stern79 Marriage 307Melissa J. Ganz80 Masculinity 312Marco Wan81 Moral hazard 315Sharif Youssef82 Murder 319Chase Burton83 Music and law 323Robbie Sykes and Kieran Tranter84 Narratives in court decisions 327Frode Helmich Pedersen85 Narratology, legal 330Ralph Grunewald86 Naturalization 334Stephanie DeGooyer87 Novel and the law 337Hilary Schor88 Obscenity 342Katherine Mullin89 Panopticism 346Claire Wrobel90 Pardon and forgiveness 350Haiyan Lee91 Performance, theatricality, andspectacle (legal) 354Julie Stone Peters92 Photography 359Monica Huerta93 Police 363Jeannine Marie DeLombard94 Postcolonial studies 367Jack Quirk95 Precedent 372Ayelet Ben-Yishai96 Privacy 376Cathrine O. Frank97 Property: law, theory, and fiction 381Ravit Reichman98 Property: the view fromShakespeare’s Venice 385Carol M. Rose99 Psychoanalysis and language 390David Gurnham and Haris Psarras100 Public domain 394Robert Spoo101 Publicity rights and celebrity 398Mark Bartholomew102 Punishment, theories of 402John Cyril Barton103 Queer studies 406Hannal Manshel104 Realism, legal 410Dan Priel105 Realism, literary 414Christine Holbo106 Reconstruction: its law and literature 417Brook Thomas107 Refuge and asylum 421Angela Naimou108 Rhetoric and law 425Andrew Zurcher109 Sacred and secular law 429Adam Gearey110 Sanctuary and sanctuary-city 432Benjamin Woodring111 Satire 437Andrew Benjamin Bricker112 Science fiction 441Mitchell Travis and Kieran Tranter113 Self-referentiality and self-reflexivity 445Hans Lind114 Slavery 449Christopher Brown115 Testimony 453Dale Barleben116 Theatre and the law 458Alex Feldman117 Theft and burglary 464Eloise Moss118 Trademark 467Jonathan Goldman119 Tragedy 471Julen Etxabe120 Translation 475Mark Firmani121 Trauma 480Belinda Qian He122 Treason 484Rebecca Lemon123 Trial jury (early modern) 488Penelope Geng124 Trials in literature 492Kieran Dolin125 Trials of literature 496Ralf Grüttemeier126 Trusts 500Gary Watt127 Truth and post-truth 504Angela Condello128 Uncanny 508Stefan Andriopoulos129 Undocu literature 512Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera130 Victimization 516Greta Olson131 Visual literacy: law’s screen life 520Richard K. Sherwin132 Wills 524Cathrine O. Frank133 Witches 528Ian Ward134 Witness (n. and v.) 532Nicole Mansfield Wright