In the Grip of the Law

The Editors: Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg. She has published widely in the areas of narratology, postcolonial theory and eighteenth-century aesthetics. Author of Reading Eating Disorders (Lang 2003).Greta Olson is a research fellow at the University of Freiburg. Her publications include work on Shakespeare, narratology and cultural studies.

• Contents: Monika Fludernik/Greta Olson: Introduction – Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos: Captain Kidd and the King: Piracy and Politics in Restoration England – Thomas Lederer: «Thereupon There Were Produced Three False Witnesses...»: Trial Scenes in Elizabethan Sacred Biography – Greta Olson: Law as Thought Pattern and Ordering Principle in Shakespeare’s Trial Scenes – Beatrix Hesse: Representations of the British Legal System in Twentieth-Century Popular Courtroom Drama – Martin A. Kayman: Trials of Law and Language: Caleb Williams and John Horne Tooke – Christoph Houswitschka: Circulating Ideas of Democracy: The Legal Culture of the High Treason Trials of 1794 – Frank Lauterbach: Errands into the Carceral Wilderness: Fictions of Imprisonment as Narratives of Social Alterity – Monika Fludernik: Prison Metaphors - The Carceral Imaginary? – Harry E. Shaw: Realities of the Prison: Dickens, Scott, and the Secularization of their Eighteenth-Century Inheritance – Carol Colatrella: The Innocent Convict: Character, Reader Sympathy, and the Nineteenth-Century Prison in Little Dorrit – Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson: Prison, Passion, and the Female Gaze: Twentieth-Century Representations of Nineteenth-Century Panopticons – Jacqueline Berben-Masi: Percival Everett’s Glyph: Prisons of the Body Physical, Political, and Academic – Jan Alber: Bodies Behind Bars: The Disciplining of the Prisoner’s Body in British and American Prison Movies – Monika Fludernik: Caliban Revisited: Robben Island in the Autobiographical Record.