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A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature

By Kieran Dolin

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0521807433, 9780521807432
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1132201 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
272\273
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-02-02 01:51:15
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Description

Kieran Dolin introduces the interdisciplinary study of law and literature and charts the history of the shifting relations between the two disciplines, from the open affiliation between literature and law in the sixteenth-century Inns of Court to the less visible links of contemporary culture. Each chapter is organised around a famous trial or literary-legal encounter. The wide resonance of such trials illuminates the cultural centrality of law, and the social responsiveness of literature. This book provides an accessible guide to one of the most exciting areas of interdisciplinary scholarship today.

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