Miller, Jeffrey. <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> A ground-breaking study of the gap between law and justice, establishing - at last - a truly substantive connection between law and literature. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780773588981 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>C20139000585 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law and literature.<br/>Law in literature.<br/>Legal literature--History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56  / .S778 2013