Law and the Humanities: Cultural Perspectives / / ed. by Chiara Battisti, Sidia Fiorato.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Adami, Valentina,; Amfreville, Marc,; Antor, Heinz,; Battisti, Chiara,; Bayer, Gerd,; Bertazzoli, Raffaella,; Bezrucka, Yvonne,; Carbone, Paola,; Costantini, Cristina,; Dente, Carla,; Drakakis, John,; Enrichetta Soccio, Anna,; Fiorato, Sidia,; Gaakeer, Jeanne,; Ganteau, Jean-Michel,; Giuseppe Monateri, Pier,; Gooch, John Casey,; Howe, Steven,; Larsen, Svend Erik,; Leiboff, Marett,; Logaldo, Mara,; MacNeil, William P.,; Majeske, Andrew,; Meyer, Anja,; Nicolini, Matteo,; Onega, Susana,; Ost, François,; Raffield, Paul,; Stierstorfer, Klaus,; Ward, Ian,; Watt, Gary,
• HerausgeberIn: Battisti, Chiara,; Fiorato, Sidia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Law & Literature , 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 571 p.)

This volume investigates interdisciplinary intersections between law and the humanities from the Renaissance to the present day. It allows for fruitful encounters between different disciplines: from literature to science, from the visual arts to the post-human, from the postmodern novel’s experiment...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Foreword
• Table of Contents
• Editors’ Introduction
• Elizabethan Times
• Shakespeare, Tragedy, Post-truth: Hamlet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra
• Transfixing Shakespearean Worldliness: How Literary Texts Haunt Law and Politics
• Substitution, the Counterfeit Angel and the Imprint of Law
• Race, Ethnicity and Alterity in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
• The Reversal of Modernity: From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism
• Do Shylock and Rumpelstiltskin win on appeal? The Justice of Silas Marner
• I crave the law : De quelques passions juridiques
• Shakespeare’s “Complex” Dance Imaginary from Text to Stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Frederick Ashton’s The Dream
• Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Problems of Relativity
• Hybrid Identities: Joan of Arc Between History, Drama and the Law
• From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century
• Johnathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and ‘The Cow Trial’: Law, Power, Justice and Eristics
• A Painted Ship and a Painted Ocean: Gregson v Gilbert revisited
• New Provinces of Writing and Legal Education: Law, Language and Society in Blackstone’s Commentaries
• Law, Clemency and the Politics of Emotion in Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg
• Fairy Tales and the Representation of Female Education in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters
• Female Forensics: The Woman Reader in Court in Charles Reade’s Griffith Gaunt (1866)
• Revulsion, Paradigmatic Shifts and Legal Philosophy: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Path of the Law and its Impact on American Legal Thought
• Il mostruoso e divino incanto: le sirene e un caso di ekphrasis
• From Modernism to Post-postmodernism
• Breaking the Silence: Cultural and Legal Encounters
• Urban Readings: The City as Text in Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin
• Embodied Monstrosity and Identitarian Fluidity in Jeanette Winterson’s Novels of the 1980s
• “In Some Dark Form I’ll Continue”: James Ellroy’s Silent Terror
• Barnes’ “The Stowaway” Between Post-Modernism and Post-Anthropocentrism
• Resilience, Narrative Attentiveness and Care(‐giving): Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow
• Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces
• Mythic and Fairy-Tale Elements in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann
• “Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong?”
• Posts Manent, Lex Volat: Detective Stories in Electronic Literature
• Promethean Longing: Ridley Scott’s Speculative Legalism
• Epilogue: Back to Shakespeare and Towards the Contemporary Period
• The Rocky Horror Show as Liminal, Gothic, Monstrous, Shakespearean Biolegal Fable
• Contributors
• Index of Names and Keywords