ICYMI: Villalobos on The Crucible: Old Notions of Hysteria in Modern America
ICYMI: Katharine Villalobos has published The Crucible: Old Notions of Hysteria in Modern America at 5 Law Journal for Social Justice 202 (2015).
Law and Literature
Two New Books Of Interest To Those in English Law and Literature @penelope_hg @srelsky
Two interesting books, newly published: Penelope Geng, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England (University of Toronto Press) and Stephanie Elsky, Custom, Common Law, and the Constitution of English Renaissance Literature (OUP).
Happy Birthday, Harper Lee!
Writer Harper Lee (died 2016) was born on this day in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. Below: a very selective bibliography of works on law in her most famous fictional work, To Kill a Mockingbird....
Newly Published in Paperback: Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian Nail and Jeffrey Ellsworth, eds., Routledge) @BrianWNail @routledgebooks
Newly published in paperback: Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian Nail and Jeffrey Ellsworth, eds., Routledge, 2019). This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice...
Mann on Attack By Design: Australia’s Offshore Detention System and the Literature of Atrocity @itamann
Itamar Mann, University of Haifa Faculty of Law, is publishing Attack by Design: Australia’s Offshore Detention System and the Literature of Atrocity in the European Journal of International Law (2021). Here is the abstract....
Fishman on A Random Stroll Amongst Anthony Trollope’s Lawyers
James Fishman, Pace University School of Law, has published A Random Stroll Amongst Anthony Trollope’s Lawyers. Here is the abstract. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) resides in the pantheon of nineteenth century English literature. Overcoming a...
Read and Hills on A Negotiation in Middlemarch
Daniel Read, University of Warwick Business School, and Thomas Hills, University of Warwick have published A Negotiation in Middlemarch. Here is the abstract. We analyse a negotiation drawn from George Eliot’s great novel Middlemarch:...
Sherwin on Escalus’ Dream: Re-Imagining Shakespeare’s States @RKSherwin @Palgrave @NYLawSchool
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, is publishing Escalus’ Dream: Re-Imagining Shakespeare’s States in Law and Poetics (Palgrave, 2020). Here is the abstract. Law and theater, like law and literature, and indeed like...
McClain on Political and Household Governance in Trollope’s Palliser Novels @ProfLMcClain
Linda C. McClain, Boston University School of Law, is publishing A “Woman’s Best Right” – To a Husband or the Ballot?: Political and Household Governance in Anthony Trollope’s Palliser Novels in volume 100 of...
New From Cornell University Press: Arne Hoecker, The Case of Literature @CornellPress
New from Cornell University Press: Arne Hoecker, The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives From Goethe to Kafka (Cornell University Press, 2020) (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought). In The Case of...