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Libel and Lampoon
Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792
Inbunden, 2022
1564 kr
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Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly turned to the courts and newly repurposed libel laws in an attempt to regulate the press. In …
Judicial Uses of Images
Vision in Decision
Inbunden, 2023
1435 kr
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A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat. A while later he inserts these photographs into a decision involving another insufflated rodent used in a union protest. The increasing use of images in case law and precedent in the …
From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect
Av Greta Olson
Inbunden, 2022
1935 kr
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Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect argues for the continued vitality of Law and Literature. Traditional methods of Law and Literature are combined with work in critical media studies, …
The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature
Av Elise Wang
Inbunden, 2024
1222 kr
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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, …
Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons
Häftad, 2022
533 kr
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Winner, Matei Calinescu Prize, Modern Language AssociationWinner, 2021 Modernist Studies Award, Modernist Studies AssociationLong before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the …
Law as Performance
Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe
Inbunden, 2022
2005 kr
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Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product …
Law as Performance
Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe
Häftad, 2026
500 kr
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Tirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be "seen to be done." Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through the early modern period. Viewing law as the product …
Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race
A Literary and Legal History of Slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic, 1688-1818
Av Sarah Marsh
Inbunden, 2026
1517 kr
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Novel Constitutions and the Making of Race argues that Anglo-American racial slavery emerged from a constitutional crisis in seventeenth-century England between divine-right absolutism of the Stuart kings, and their people's claims to an 'ancient constitution': an immemorial, heritable protection …
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Law of the Market
Inbunden, 2027
1420 kr
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In the expanding and industrializing economy of the mid-nineteenth century, American writers and jurists confronted a series of questions about the relationship between law, markets, and morality that remain pertinent to this day. Is monetary compensation adequate or even necessary to rectify …
Characters Before Copyright
The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Inbunden, 2019
1500 kr
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How did authors control the literary fates of fictional characters before the existence of copyright? Could a second author do anything with another author's character? Situated between the decline of the privilege system and the rise of copyright, literary borrowing in eighteenth-century Germany …
Metaphors of Confinement
The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy
Inbunden, 2019
3232 kr
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Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or restrictive. …
Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature
Inbunden, 2020
1788 kr
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Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature argues that, ironically, custom was a supremely generative literary force for a range of Renaissance writers. Custom took on so much power because of its virtual synonymity with English common law, the increasingly dominant …
Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons
Inbunden, 2020
1771 kr
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Long before the US Supreme Court announced that corporate persons freely "speak" with money in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), they elaborated the legal fiction of American corporate personhood in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886). Yet endowing a non-human …
Law at the Movies
Turning Legal Doctrine into Art
Av Stanley Fish
Inbunden, 2024
455 kr
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This book asks "How can legal doctrine be turned into filmic art?" By "legal doctrine" Stanley Fish does not mean the sonorous abstractions that usually accompany the self-presentation of law--Justice, Equity, Equality, Liberty, Autonomy, and the like. Rather he has in mind the specific rules and …
Imagining the American Death Penalty
The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations
Av Birte Christ
Inbunden, 2025
1451 kr
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Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the US American cultural imaginary of capital punishment through popular visual representations from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on three generic and historical clusters of representations: early film from the 1890s through …
Belief in Evidence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Inbunden, 2026
1767 kr
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What makes us believe anything told to us by another person? How does this work in scenes of judgment where we operate almost exclusively with report from others, like a trial by jury? Thomas Reid declared in 1785 that 'we give the name of evidence to whatever is a ground of belief', and such …
The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature
Av Peter Jaros
Inbunden, 2026
1517 kr
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Through close examination of legal and literary texts, The Corporate Forms of Antebellum US Literature tells the story of the corporation in antebellum US law, literature, and culture. It unfolds a rich and varied corporate imaginary that both illuminates the prehistory of today's corporations and …
Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature
Inbunden, 2011
2542 kr
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In recent years, the well-established field of human anthropology has been put under scrutiny by the new data offered by science and technology. Scientific intervention into human life through organ transplants, euthanasia, genetic engineering, experiments connected to the genetic code and the …
Rhetoric and Evidence
Legal Conflict and Literary Representation in U.S. American Culture
Inbunden, 2011
2487 kr
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The book traces the changing relation and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, using examples from the 18th to the 20th century (including novels by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee, and William Gaddis). Since the early American republic, the …
Dialogues on Justice
European Perspectives on Law and Humanities
Av Helle Porsdam, Thomas Elholm
Inbunden, 2012
1565 kr
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The contributions presented in this volume are the result of research activities and interdisciplinary encounters organised by the Nordic Network of Law and Literature. They focus on current discussions on justice in a Nordic and European context. By expanding the focus to justice and humanities – …
Visualizing Law and Authority
Essays on Legal Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2012
1612 kr
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The volume "Visualizing Law and Authority. Essays on Legal Aesthetics" brings together revised papers from the international conference "Law and the Image", held in Stockholm, 24–25 September, 2010. The participants/contributors belong to the disciplines of Art history, Cultural studies, Literary …
Law and Justice in Literature, Film and Theater
Nordic Perspectives
Inbunden, 2013
1765 kr
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This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses of canonical Nordic artworks. Law and justice have always been important issues in Nordic literature, film and theater from the Icelandic sagas …
Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2013
1962 kr
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The concept of the just war poses one of the most important ethical questions to date. Can war ever be justified and, if so, how? When is a cause of war proportional to its costs and who must be held responsible? The monograph Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare demonstrates that the necessary …
Liminal Discourses
Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature
Av Daniela Carpi, Jeanne Gaakeer
Inbunden, 2013
1765 kr
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The past few decades in legal and literary studies have challenged the boundaries raised by the different concepts of law and literature espoused by a great variety of theorists. Law's traditionally assumed disciplinary autonomy has been challenged by those who have pursued interdisciplinary …
Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso
Av Greta Olson
Inbunden, 2013
1658 kr
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Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso demonstrates how animal metaphors have been used to denigrate persons identified as criminal in literature, law, and science. Its three-part history traces the popularization of the 'criminal beast' metaphor in late sixteenth-century England, the …
Literature and Human Rights
The Law, the Language and the Limitations of Human Rights Discourse
Av Ian Ward
Inbunden, 2015
1753 kr
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Law and Ethics in Greek and Roman Declamation
Av Eugenio Amato, Francesco Citti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2542 kr
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Ancient declamation—the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios—defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. It is only within the past few decades that the full complexity of declamation, and the promise inherent in its study, …
Performing the Renaissance Body
Essays on Drama, Law, and Representation
Av Sidia Fiorato, John Drakakis
Inbunden, 2016
1962 kr
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In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of normative identity and at the same …
Diaspora, Law and Literature
Av Klaus Stierstorfer, Daniela Carpi
Inbunden, 2016
1962 kr
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The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another interdisciplinary field, the study of …
Fables of the Law
Fairy Tales in a Legal Context
Av Daniela Carpi, Marett Leiboff
Inbunden, 2016
1648 kr
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The latest development concerning the metaphorical use of the fairy tale is the legal perspective. The law had and has recourse to fairy tales in order to speak of the nomos and its subversion, of the politically correct and of the various means that have been used to enforce the law. Fairy tales …
