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This book studies major works of literature from classical antiquity to the present that reflect crises in the evolution of Western law: the move from a prelegal to a legal society in The Eumenides, the Christianization of Germanic law in Njal's Saga, the disenchantment with medieval customary law in Reynard the Fox, the reception of Roman law in a variety of Renaissance texts, the conflict between law and equity in Antigone and The Merchant of Venice, the eighteenth-century codification controversy in the works of Kleist, the modern debate between "pure" and "free" law in Kafka's The Trial and other fin-de-siècle works, and the effects of totalitarianism, the theory of universal guilt, and anarchism in the twentieth century. Using principles from the anthropological theory of legal evolution, the book locates the works in their legal contexts and traces through them the gradual dissociation over the centuries of law and morality. It thereby associates and illuminates these masterpieces from an original point of view and contributes a new dimension to the study of literature and law. In contrast to prevailing adherents of Law-and-Literature, this book professes Literature-and-Law, in which the emphasis is historical rather than theoretical, substantive rather than rhetorical, and literary rather than legal. Instead of adducing the literary work to illustrate debates about modern law, this book consults the history of law as an essential aid to the understanding of the literary text and its conflicts.

Droit dans la littérature --- Droit et litterature --- Law and literature --- Law in literature --- Recht en literatuur --- Recht in de literatuur --- Law and literature. --- Law in literature. --- Legal stories --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Droit et littérature --- Literature and law --- Literatuur en recht --- Littérature et droit --- Droit --- Littérature --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique. --- Droit et littérature. --- Dans la littérature. --- Droit et littérature. --- Littérature --- Dans la littérature.

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Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Literature --- Law and literature --- Law in literature --- Lawyers as authors --- Droit et littérature --- Droit dans la littérature --- Avocats auteurs --- Littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Legal stories --- -Legal stories --- -Law --- Law --- Lawyers --- Legal novels --- Fiction --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature and law --- -History and criticism --- Droit et littérature --- Droit dans la littérature --- Littérature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Legal stories - History and criticism --- Literature - History and criticism

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The emergence of an interdisciplinary study of law and literature is one of the most exciting theoretical developments taking place in North America and Britain. In Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives Ian Ward explores the educative ambitions of the law and literature movement, and its already established critical, ethical and political potential. He reveals the law in literature, and the literature of law, in key areas of literature, from Shakespeare to Beatrix Potter to Umberto Eco, and from feminist literature to children's literature to the modern novel, drawing out the interaction between rape law and The Handmaid's Tale, and the psychology of English property law and The Tale of Peter Rabbit. This original book defines the developing state of law and literature studies, and demonstrates how the theory of law and literature can illuminate the literary text.

Droit dans la littérature --- Droit et litterature --- Law and literature --- Law in literature --- Recht en literatuur --- Recht in de literatuur --- Literature --- -Legal stories --- -Law --- Law --- Lawyers --- Legal novels --- Fiction --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Literature and law --- History and criticism --- Law and literature. --- Law in literature. --- Legal stories --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- Droit et littérature --- Literatuur en recht --- Littérature et droit --- -Literature and law --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Arts and Humanities

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Contracten in de literatuur --- Contracts in literature --- Contrats dans la littérature --- Droit dans la littérature --- Law in literature --- Littérature réaliste --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Neorealisme (Literatuur) --- Néoréalisme (Littérature) --- Promise (Law) in literature --- Realism (Literary movement) --- Realism in literature --- Realisme (Letterkundige beweging) --- Realisme (Literaire beweging) --- Realisme in de literatuur --- Realistische literatuur --- Recht in de literatuur --- Réalisme (Mouvement littéraire) --- Réalisme dans la littérature --- Social ethics in literature --- Social status in literature --- Sociale positie in de literatuur --- Statut social dans la littérature --- American fiction --- Contracts in literature. --- Law in literature. --- Literature and society --- Promise (Law) in literature. --- Realism in literature. --- Social ethics in literature. --- Social status in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- United States --- Contracts --- Twain, Mark --- Criticism and interpretation --- James, Henry --- Chopin, Kate O'Flaherty --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Hay, John Milton --- Lynde, Francis --- Tourgee, Albion Winegar --- Phillips, David Graham --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1800-1899 --- Domestic relations in literature --- Economics in literature --- Economie dans la littérature --- Economie in de literatuur --- Familierecht in de literatuur --- Famille [Droit] dans la littérature --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Huwelijk in de literatuur --- Mariage dans la littérature --- Marriage in literature --- Property in literature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur --- Sex role in literature --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- English fiction --- Domestic fiction, English --- Literature and society --- Women and literature --- Economics in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Roman anglais --- Roman familial anglais --- Littérature et société --- Femmes et littérature --- Economie politique dans la littérature --- Propriété dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Littérature et société --- Femmes et littérature --- Economie politique dans la littérature --- Propriété dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Mariage dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Domestic fiction [English ] --- England