Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives (Issn) (Issn, 17)

This volume investigates interdisciplinary intersections between law and the humanities from the Renaissance to the present day. It allows for fruitful encounters between different disciplines: from literature to science, from the visual arts to the post-human, from the postmodern novel’s experimentation to most recent approaches towards the legal interpretation of literary texts. This productive dialogue fosters original perspectives in the interpretation of and reflection upon identity, justice, power and human rights and values, thus underlining the role of literature in the articulation of relevant cultural issues pertaining to specific periods. Foreword Table of Contents Editors’ Introduction Elizabethan Times Shakespeare, Tragedy, Post-truth: Hamlet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra Transfixing Shakespearean Worldliness: How Literary Texts Haunt Law and Politics Substitution, the Counterfeit Angel and the Imprint of Law Race, Ethnicity and Alterity in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus The Reversal of Modernity: From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism Do Shylock and Rumpelstiltskin win on appeal? The Justice of Silas Marner I crave the law : De quelques passions juridiques Shakespeare’s “Complex” Dance Imaginary from Text to Stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Frederick Ashton’s The Dream Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Problems of Relativity Hybrid Identities: Joan of Arc Between History, Drama and the Law From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century Johnathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and ‘The Cow Trial’: Law, Power, Justice and Eristics A Painted Ship and a Painted Ocean: Gregson v Gilbert revisited New Provinces of Writing and Legal Education: Law, Language and Society in Blackstone’s Commentaries Law, Clemency and the Politics of Emotion in Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg Fairy Tales and the Representation of Female Education in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters Female Forensics: The Woman Reader in Court in Charles Reade’s Griffith Gaunt (1866) Revulsion, Paradigmatic Shifts and Legal Philosophy: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Path of the Law and its Impact on American Legal Thought Il mostruoso e divino incanto: le sirene e un caso di ekphrasis From Modernism to Post-postmodernism Breaking the Silence: Cultural and Legal Encounters Urban Readings: The City as Text in Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin Embodied Monstrosity and Identitarian Fluidity in Jeanette Winterson’s Novels of the 1980s “In Some Dark Form I’ll Continue”: James Ellroy’s Silent Terror Barnes’ “The Stowaway” Between Post-Modernism and Post-Anthropocentrism Resilience, Narrative Attentiveness and Care(‐giving): Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces Mythic and Fairy-Tale Elements in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann “Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong?” Posts Manent, Lex Volat: Detective Stories in Electronic Literature Promethean Longing: Ridley Scott’s Speculative Legalism Epilogue: Back to Shakespeare and Towards the Contemporary Period The Rocky Horror Show as Liminal, Gothic, Monstrous, Shakespearean Biolegal Fable Contributors Index of Names and Keywords "This volume investigates interdisciplinary intersections between law and the humanities from the Renaissance to the present day. It allows for fruitful encounters between different disciplines: from literature to science, from the visual arts to the post-human, from the postmodern novel's experimentation to most recent approaches towards the legal interpretation of literary texts. This productive dialogue fosters original perspectives in the interpretation of and reflection upon identity, justice, power and human rights and values, thus underlining the role of literature in the articulation of relevant cultural issues pertaining to specific periods"-- Provided by publisher

The interdisciplinary series "Law & Literature" takes a systematic look at the correlation between literature and the law. The studies presented in this series analyze the complex interrelation between two cultural spheres which are not only at the basis of Western Culture and Society, but share in a common focus on texts. Bringing together contributions by jurists, historians of law, legal philosophers, and specialists in literary and cultural studies, this series reflects a trend in current inter- and transdisciplinary research which has recently shown rapid growth both in Europe and the United States.