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Cannons and codes : law, literature, and America's wars / edited by Alison L. LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, Laura Weinrib.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- War in literature.
- War and literature--United States--History.
- War and literature.
- Law and literature--United States--History.
- Law and literature.
- War and society--United States--History.
- War and society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This edited volume on war in law and literature addresses the many ways in which war affects human society and the many groups of people whose lives are affected by war. The essays, by preeminent scholars, discuss the ways in which literary works can shed light on legal thinking about war, and how a deep understanding of law can lead to interpretive insights on literary works. Some concern the lives of soldiers; others focus on civilians living in war zones, who are caught up in the conflict; still others address themselves to the home front, far from the theatre of war.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Alison LaCroix, Jonathan S. Masur, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Laura Weinrib
- Law, literature, and war : a plenary panel with Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Diane P. Wood, Paul Woodruff, and Martha C. Nussbaum
- Forming a nation through war's crucible. Law and war in the New World : The last of the Mohicans, The spy and The pioneers / Douglas Baird
- New light on the trial of Billy Budd / Richard H. McAdams and Jacob I. Corre
- Two humanitarianisms in Ambrose Bierce's "An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" / John Fabian Witt
- Law and its limits in Albion Tourgée's Bricks without straw / Kate Masur
- The two Great Wars. Trenches, cadences, and faces : social connection and emotional expression in the Great War / Nancy Sherman
- Crucified by the war machine : Britten's War requiem and the hope of postwar resurrection / Martha C. Nussbaum
- Undivided loyalty : the problem of allegiance in the literature of war / Alison LaCroix and William Birdthistle
- Law and legitimacy in A farewell to arms / Laura Weinrib
- Lawmaking, bilateral rules, and a debunking of Catch-22 / Saul Levmore
- Catch-22 and the law of large organizations / Jonathan S. Masur
- Law and literature after the Pacific War : Endo Shusaku's The sea and the poison / Tom Ginsburg
- Afterward. Sympathizing with both sides : racism and American intervention in Vietnam / Paul Woodruff
- Paul Beatty, the rhetoric of war, and the selling out of civil rights / Elizabeth Anker
- How war makes (and unmakes) the democratic state : reading The reluctant fundamentalist and Exit west in a populism age / Aziz Z. Huq
- Black radicalism, autobiography, and prisoners of war / Tommie Shelby.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 12, 2021).
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-750939-8
- 0-19-750940-1
- 0-19-750938-X
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