Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities – serie
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31 produkter
Law in Irish Literature
Critical Approaches to Institutions, Power and Identity
Inbunden, 2027
997 kr
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Róisín Á Costello provides a critical analysis of the ways in which law is portrayed in Irish literature and argues that authors from Ireland (writing in both Irish and English) have consistently used literature as a mechanism to challenge and critique institutional power. In doing so, she argues …
Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination
Inbunden, 2022
1305 kr
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The first study of the representation of corporations in US law, literature, and culture Covers key topics in company law including the emergence of corporate personhood, the regulation of monopolies, the piercing of the corporate veil, agent-principal relationships and examines their literary and …
Corporation in the Nineteenth-Century American Imagination
Häftad, 2024
661 kr
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Examines the way the corporation a legal concept of enduring and timely importance in the Anglo-American legal tradition was imagined in the nineteenth-century historical imagination. Stefanie Mueller traces the ways in which literary and cultural representations of the corporation in …
Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies
Law, Politics, Culture
Inbunden, 2024
2102 kr
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A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and the media. The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies unpacks Critical Legal Studies (CLS) to address what CLS was, how it came about, and what its legacy means for …
Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies
Law, Politics, Culture
Häftad, 2026
352 kr
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A wide-ranging intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement, drawing from personal accounts, academic works, and the media. The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies unpacks Critical Legal Studies (CLS) to address what CLS was, how it came about, and what its legacy means for …
Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema
Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Sets a new trajectory for considering the intertwined relationship between theology and law through speculative cinemaOffers 7 close readings of Hollywood speculative fiction blockbusters as theological and jurisprudential texts: Shyamalan's Unbreakable, Snyder's Man of Steel, Lucas and Disney's …
Imagined States
Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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Imagined States examines representations of the law in British and Nigerian high-brow, middle-brow and popular fiction and journalism. Drawing on a rich range of examples, the book focuses on the imaginative role that the state of exception played in the application of indirect rule during British …
Living in Technical Legality
Science Fiction and Law as Technology
Inbunden, 2018
1759 kr
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Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television’s Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the …
Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema
Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law
Inbunden, 2021
2270 kr
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Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films Shyamalan's Unbreakable, Snyder's Man of Steel, Lucas's and Disney's Star Wars, Nolan's The Dark Knight & The Dark Knight Rises, Proyas' I, Robot, Nolfi's The Adjustment Bureau and Jackson's The Hobbit Timothy Peters …
Schreber’s Law
Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition
Inbunden, 2018
1225 kr
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Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) was a senior German judge and jurist. He formulated a unique juridical theology of private life and developed a critical account of oikonomia, the practice of governance and administration. But his theoretical work was largely ignored due to his mental illness and …
Schreber’s Law
Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition
Häftad, 2020
299 kr
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Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) was a senior German judge and jurist. He formulated a unique juridical theology of private life and developed a critical account of oikonomia, the practice of governance and administration. But his theoretical work was largely ignored due to his mental illness and …
Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Aesthetics, Politics, Law
Inbunden, 2020
1203 kr
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Explores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experiences of justiceClose analysis of films such as Pan’s Labyrinth, High Heels, Common Wealth, The Method, No Rest for the Wicked, Unit 7Engages with legal theory, film studies, aesthetics, and politicsApproaches law and film as …
Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Aesthetics, Politics, Law
Häftad, 2022
532 kr
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Sensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice in the context of twenty-first-century Spain. What senses do these frames privilege or downgrade? What kind of subjects do they show, construct, and address? What kind of affective …
Judging from Experience
Law, Praxis, Humanities
Inbunden, 2019
2544 kr
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Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic interdisciplinary study of law and literature and for …
Judging from Experience
Law, Praxis, Humanities
Häftad, 2020
430 kr
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Combining her expertise in legal theory and judicial practice in a continental European civil-law system, Jeanne Gaakeer explores the intertwinement of legal theory and practice to develop a humanities-inspired methodology for both the academic interdisciplinary study of law and literature and for …
Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Av Erin Sheley
Inbunden, 2020
2605 kr
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By accessing penal history through the mediator of individual memory authors can be seen to depict the cumulative dialogue between the English common law and its cultural representations across historical time. Offering legal readings of works by authors including Thomas Hardy, Charles Brockden …
Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Av Erin Sheley
Häftad, 2022
287 kr
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Through interdisciplinary readings of a range of literary and legal texts across a 200-year period, this book uncovers the connections between the individual and collective memories of law and crime that affected the development of the law itself. It draws on 3 case studies adultery, child …
Play of Law in Modern British Theatre
Av Ian Ward
Inbunden, 2021
1774 kr
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The first book to investigate the place of law in modern and contemporary dramaIllustrates the role of contemporary theatre in articulating legal and political issues to a modern audienceAnalyses a range of different genres in contemporary drama, including historical, poetic, realist, documentary …
Play of Law in Modern British Theatre
Av Ian Ward
Häftad, 2022
594 kr
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The first book to investigate the place of law in modern and contemporary dramaIllustrates the role of contemporary theatre in articulating legal and political issues to a modern audienceAnalyses a range of different genres in contemporary drama, including historical, poetic, realist, documentary …
Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2021
1816 kr
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The Anthropocene thesis contends that human impact on the environment has become so extreme that the earth system as a whole has been tipped into a new state. This new geological epoch demands sensitivity to the forces that traverse human and nonhuman life, the geological, ecological and …
Earthbound: The Aesthetics of Sovereignty in the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2025
408 kr
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Daniel Matthews shows how sovereignty - the organising principle for modern law and politics - depends on a distinctive aesthetics that ensures that we see, feel and order the world in such a way that keeps the realities of climate change and ecological destruction largely 'off stage'. Through …
Faustian Pact in International Law
Inbunden, 2024
1273 kr
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The book provides an original and captivating perspective on international law and Giorgio Agamben's work. The manuscript is profoundly aesthetic-textual in its approach, as exemplified in its deft and insightful close readings of drama (Goethe's Faust), prose fiction (Melville's Bartleby and …
Faustian Pact in International Law
Häftad, 2026
359 kr
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The book provides an original and captivating perspective on international law and Giorgio Agamben's work. The manuscript is profoundly aesthetic-textual in its approach, as exemplified in its deft and insightful close readings of drama (Goethe's Faust), prose fiction (Melville's Bartleby and …
Outlaws and Spies
Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature
Inbunden, 2020
2183 kr
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By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together – the outlaw literature and espionage literature – Conor McCarthy shows how these genres represent and critique the longstanding use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin …
Outlaws and Spies
Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature
Häftad, 2022
711 kr
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Outlawry and espionage would seem to be quite different phenomena, rarely discussed together, but this book shows that they have something in common - both involve exclusion from law. Challenging previous readings that view outlawry as a now-superseded historical phenomenon, and outlaws as figures …
Living in Technical Legality
Science Fiction and Law as Technology
Häftad, 2020
661 kr
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Through detailed readings of popular science fiction, including the novels of Frank Herbert and Octavia E. Butler and television’s Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, this is the first sustained examination of legality in science fiction. Kieran Tranter includes substantive worked examples of the …
Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature
Inbunden, 2021
1414 kr
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Why would Hawthorne and Eliot grant their fallen women an anachronistic right to silence that could only worsen their punishment? Why did Bronte and Gaskell find gossip such a useful source of information when lawyers excluded it as hearsay? How did Trollope's work as an editor influence his …
Character, Writing, and Reputation in Victorian Law and Literature
Häftad, 2023
379 kr
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Examines legal and literary narratives of personhood in the 19th century Traces the concept of character through related areas of law, cultural discourses of character and the formal structures of the novel Offers new readings of works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth …
Lawful Forest
A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice
Inbunden, 2022
1816 kr
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This book is a study of the critical history of space, and the ways in which a dominant property ideology has entrenched an exclusionary and profoundly alienating version of spatial ordering. It focuses on select periods in time, when the seemingly linear trajectory of enclosure momentarily wavers …
Lawful Forest
A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice
Häftad, 2024
290 kr
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Using the forest as a thematic device, Clark and Page explore the tensions that pervade our propertied relationships; between commodity and community, abstraction and context, and private enclosure and the public square. They draw on a range of case studies including the 13th century Forest …
