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Law and Literature

Hardback

Main Details

Title Law and Literature
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Kieran Dolin
SeriesCambridge Critical Concepts
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:396
Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 158
Category/GenreLiterary theory
Literary studies - general
Literary reference works
ISBN/Barcode 9781108422819
ClassificationsDewey:809.933554
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 25 January 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Law and Literature presents an authoritative, fresh and accessible new overview of the many ways in which law and literature interact. Written by a team of international experts, it provides a multi-focused history of literary studies' critical interest in ideas of law and justice. It examines the effects of law on writers and their work, ranging from classical tragedy to comics, and from East Africa to Elizabethan England. Over twenty chapters, contributors reveal the intricate and multivalent historical interactions between law and literature, both past and present, and trace the intellectual genesis of the concept of law in literary studies, focusing on major developments in the history of the interdisciplinary project of law and literature, as well as the changing ideas of law, and the cultural contests in which it has figured. Law and Literature will appeal to graduates and scholars working on the intersection between law and literature and in key related areas such as literature and human rights.

Author Biography

Kieran Dolin is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, Perth. He is the author of Fiction and the Law (Cambridge, 1999) and A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature (Cambridge, 2007).