Lawyers and fiction writers have always confronted crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equipped with a trial process that contains its own dramatic structure. This essay collection explores this profound and enduring literary engagement with crime and criminaljustice.
Lawyers and fiction writers have always confronted crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equipped with a trial process that contains its own dramatic structure. This essay collection explores this profound and enduring literary engagement with crime and criminaljustice.
Alison L. LaCroix is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Ideological Origins of American Federalism and the co-editor, with Martha C. Nussbaum, of Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel (OUP 2012). Her teaching and research interests include legal history, constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, law and linguistics, and law and literature. Richard H. McAdams is the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Expressive Powers of Law (2015) and co-editor of Fairness in Law and Economics (2013). Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice (OUP 2016).
Inhaltsangabe
* Contributor List * Introduction * Chapter 1. Scott Turow, On My Careers in Crime * Part I: Criminal Histories * Chapter 2. Daniel Telech, Mercy at the Areopagus: A Nietzschean account of Justice and Joy in the Eumenides * Chapter 3. Barry Wimpfheimer, Suborning Perjury: A Case Study of Narrative Precedent in Talmudic Law * Chapter 4. Alison LaCroix, A Man for All Treasons: Crimes By and Against the Tudor State in the Novels of Hilary Mantel * Chapter 5. Marina Leslie, Representing Anne Green: Historical and Literary Form, And the Scenes of the Crime in Oxford, 1651 * Chapter 6. Richard Strier and Richard McAdams, Cold-Blooded and High Minded Murder: The "Case" of Othello * Chapter 7. Pamela Foa, What's Love Got To Do With It? Sexual Exploitation in Measure for Measure: A Prosecutor's View * Part II: Race and Crime * Chapter 8. Justin Driver, Justice Thomas and Bigger Thomas * Chapter 9. Martha Nussbaum, Reconciliation Without Anger: Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country * Part III: Responsibility and Violence * Chapter 10. Saul Levmore, Kidnap, Credibility, and The Collector. * Chapter 11. Jonathan Masur, Premeditation and Responsibility in The Stranger * Chapter 12. Saira Mohamed and Melissa Murray, Walking Away: Lessons from Omelas * Chapter 13. Mark Payne, Before the Law: Imagining Crimes against Trees * Part IV: Suspicion and Investigation * Chapter 14. Caleb Smith, Crime Scenes: Fictions of Security in the Antebellum American Borderlands * Chapter 15. Steven Wilf, The Legal Historian as Detective * Index
* Contributor List * Introduction * Chapter 1. Scott Turow, On My Careers in Crime * Part I: Criminal Histories * Chapter 2. Daniel Telech, Mercy at the Areopagus: A Nietzschean account of Justice and Joy in the Eumenides * Chapter 3. Barry Wimpfheimer, Suborning Perjury: A Case Study of Narrative Precedent in Talmudic Law * Chapter 4. Alison LaCroix, A Man for All Treasons: Crimes By and Against the Tudor State in the Novels of Hilary Mantel * Chapter 5. Marina Leslie, Representing Anne Green: Historical and Literary Form, And the Scenes of the Crime in Oxford, 1651 * Chapter 6. Richard Strier and Richard McAdams, Cold-Blooded and High Minded Murder: The "Case" of Othello * Chapter 7. Pamela Foa, What's Love Got To Do With It? Sexual Exploitation in Measure for Measure: A Prosecutor's View * Part II: Race and Crime * Chapter 8. Justin Driver, Justice Thomas and Bigger Thomas * Chapter 9. Martha Nussbaum, Reconciliation Without Anger: Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country * Part III: Responsibility and Violence * Chapter 10. Saul Levmore, Kidnap, Credibility, and The Collector. * Chapter 11. Jonathan Masur, Premeditation and Responsibility in The Stranger * Chapter 12. Saira Mohamed and Melissa Murray, Walking Away: Lessons from Omelas * Chapter 13. Mark Payne, Before the Law: Imagining Crimes against Trees * Part IV: Suspicion and Investigation * Chapter 14. Caleb Smith, Crime Scenes: Fictions of Security in the Antebellum American Borderlands * Chapter 15. Steven Wilf, The Legal Historian as Detective * Index
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