Mark Twain, the Literary Prosecutor
ICYMI: Mark Twain wrote this imaginary prosecution of the novelist James Fenimore Cooper for “literary offenses.” You can find it published at (among other places) 24 Litigation 72 (Winter 1998) as well as here...
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The Trial of Lysistrata (from Classics for All) @rogueclassicist @classicsforall
Via @rogueclassicist, here’s the Moot Trial of Lysistrata, presented by Classics for All. Mary Howarth Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, presides. Lysistrata (text) Aristophanes
And For Your Reading Pleasure @HorribleSanity
If your reading tastes run to the odd, the eccentric, the Gothic, the off-beat (in literature or history), the pop culture-ish, or the feline, check out Undine’s blog Strange Company. Among her recent psots,...
Newly Published: Katherine Isobel Baxter, Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) @EdinburghUP
Newly published: Katherine Isobel Baxter, Imagined States: Law and Literature in Nigeria 1900-1966 (Edinburgh University Press, 2019) (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature, and the Humanities). Examines representations of the law in colonial and...
ICYMI: Mark Fortier on Literature and Law (Routledge, 2019) @uofg @routledgebooks
ICYMI: Mark Fortier, University of Guelph, has published Literature and Law (Routledge, 2019). The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction...
Alford and Seniff on LIterature and Law in the Middle Ages @routledgebooks
ICYMI: John A. Alford and Dennis P. Seniff, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages: A Bibliography of Scholarship (Routledge, 2019). Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a...
New From Routledge: Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (2019) @routledgebooks @BrianWNail
New from Routledge; Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy (Brian W. Nail and Jeffrey A. Ellsworth eds., Routledge, 2019). This volume examines the relationship between law and sacrifice...
Kemmerer and Wolhleben on Mythos und Recht: Poetick und Politik in Christa Wolfs Kassandra-Projekt @kemmereralex @Uni-MR
Alexandra Kemmerer, Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences; Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International law, and Doren Wohlleben, University of Marberg, have published Im Kalten Krieg der Geschlechter. Mythos...
A New “Dracula” To Premiere on BBC/Netflix @TheConversationUK @TheConversationUS
The excellent site The Conversation offers Jordan Kistler’s essay on the BBC and Netflix’s update on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which will make its debut in early 2020. Writes Professor Kistler, Gothic fiction has always had...
Sherwin on Character as a Sacred Bond @RKSherwin @tandfnewsroom
Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, is publishing Character is a Sacred Bond in volume 24 of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (August 2019). Here is the abstract. Law clings to rules to stabilize...