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This collection of essays by scholars of the law and literature movement explores the place of the passions in English law of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. While some of the essays elucidate the forces of emotion in legal texts, others consider the representation of impassioned jurisprudence in literary texts. Together these essays provide insight into the foundations of modern juridical thought.

Law --- Law and literature. --- History. --- Literature and law --- Literature

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Disputes lie at the heart of the sagas. Consequently, literary texts have been treated as sources of legal practice - narrations of law - while the sagas themselves and the handling of legal matters by the figures adhere to 'laws of narration'. The volume addresses this intricate relationship between literature and social practice from the perspective of historians as well as philologists. The contributions focus not only on disputes and their solution in saga literature, but also on the representation of law and its history in sagas and Latin historiography from Scandinavia as well as the representation of laws and norms in mythological texts. They demonstrate that narrations of law provide an indispensable insight into legal culture and its connection to a wider framework of social norms, adjusting the impression given by the laws. The philological approaches underline that the narrative texts also have an agenda of their own when it comes to their representation of law, providing a mirror of conduct, criticising inequity, reinforcing the political and juridical position of kings or negotiating norms in mythological texts. Altogether, the volume underlines the unifying force exerted by a common fiction of law beyond its letter.

Law --- History. --- Literature and law. --- Scandinavian historiography. --- saga literature.

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Law and literature. --- Russian literature --- Literature and law --- Literature --- History and criticism.

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Law and literature --- Legal stories --- -Literature and law --- Law --- Lawyers --- Legal novels --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Legal stories - History and criticism --- Law and literature - Congresses --- Legal stories - History and criticism - Congresses

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Law and Literature, published triennially and edited by the faculty of the Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University and a board of international scholars, is one of only two journals in the country entirely focused on the interdisciplinary movement known as Law and Literature. The movement, which explores law-related literature and the literary value of legal documents, provides a unique perspective on how law and literature are mutually enlightening. Issues in private law and public law, restrictions on creative expression, gender and racial bias, hermeneutics (interpretative methodologies), and legal themes in works of literature are among the journal's regular topics. Law and Literature was previously published as Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature by the Cardozo School of Law from 1989-2001. Beginning in 2002, the journal appears as Law and Literature and is published by University of California Press.

Law and literature --- Droit et littérature --- Law and literature. --- Literature and law --- Literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Law --- General and Others