The structures of law and literature : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination /
Miller, Jeffrey.
The structures of law and literature : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination / Jeffrey Miller. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 242) p
Includes bibliographies and index.
1 First Principles and Controversies: Is Law and Literature More Than a Distraction for Bored Law Professors? -- 2 Towards a Typology, Iconography, and Symbology of Law and Literature -- 3 It's a Dutiful Day in the Neighbourhood: Duty as the Fulcrum on the Scales of Justice and the Centre of Community -- 4 The Evil That Persons Do: Unreasonableness and the Rejection or Abnegation of Duty -- 5 Humpty Dumpty in Wig and Gown: Legalese as Dialect, or, the Philology of Precedent -- 6 Putting It All Together: The Structures of Law and Literature -- Law as Revolution, Justice as Nostalgia -- Glossary of Some Terms Used in This Book.
A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature.
9780773588981
C20139000585
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Legal literature--History.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .S778 2013
The structures of law and literature : duty, justice, and evil in the cultural imagination / Jeffrey Miller. - Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xi, 242) p
Includes bibliographies and index.
1 First Principles and Controversies: Is Law and Literature More Than a Distraction for Bored Law Professors? -- 2 Towards a Typology, Iconography, and Symbology of Law and Literature -- 3 It's a Dutiful Day in the Neighbourhood: Duty as the Fulcrum on the Scales of Justice and the Centre of Community -- 4 The Evil That Persons Do: Unreasonableness and the Rejection or Abnegation of Duty -- 5 Humpty Dumpty in Wig and Gown: Legalese as Dialect, or, the Philology of Precedent -- 6 Putting It All Together: The Structures of Law and Literature -- Law as Revolution, Justice as Nostalgia -- Glossary of Some Terms Used in This Book.
A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature.
9780773588981
C20139000585
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Legal literature--History.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .S778 2013