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Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spoo, Robert.
- Series:
- Elgar Concise Encyclopedias in Law Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (538 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2025.
- Summary:
- The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature surveys the intersection between two important fields of study. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume showcases the many ways in which literary and legal methods and insights both converge and remain distinct.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. Abolition
- 2. Admiralty and maritime law
- 3. Adultery
- 4. Advertising
- 5. Affect
- 6. Aggadah and Halakha: literature alongside law
- 7. Atrocity, law, and literature
- 8. Authorship and publishing
- 9. Automobiles
- 10. Biblical law
- 11. Black Lives Matter poetry
- 12. Blackmail
- 13. Blasphemy culture, blasphemy law
- 14. Body
- 15. Canon law
- 16. Canonization, canons, canon formation
- 17. Causation
- 18. Censorship, informal and formal
- 19. Citizenship
- 20. Civil law
- 21. Civil rights
- 22. Climate change
- 23. Clinical legal education from a humanistic perspective
- 24. Comedy and the law
- 25. Common law reasoning
- 26. Confession
- 27. Consent in literary works
- 28. Contract and boilerplate
- 29. Copyright: characters and adaptation
- 30. Copyright: scènes à faire
- 31. Copyright and journalism
- 32. Copyright in the theatre
- 33. Corporation
- 34. Courtrooms (eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, British)
- 35. Crime fiction
- 36. Death penalty
- 37. Defamation
- 38. Despotism
- 39. Detective fiction
- 40. Divine accommodation and the legal imagination
- 41. Early New England law
- 42. Eighth Amendment and 'cruel and unusual' punishment
- 43. Environmental (or nonhuman) personhood
- 44. Equity
- 45. Ethics: law and literature as an ethical enterprise
- 46. Evidence (early modern law and drama)
- 47. Evidence (fiction and narrative)
- 48. Fan fiction
- 49. Felony
- 50. Film industry
- 51. Forgery (financial, historical, and literary)
- 52. Forgery (literary and cultural)
- 53. Free speech
- 54. Freedom suit
- 55. Fundamentalism
- 56. Gender and modernism
- 57. Gothic fictions
- 58. Guardianship
- 59. Habeas corpus
- 60. Hate speech
- 61. Higher law
- 62. Human rights
- 63. Identification and identity.
- 64. Identification papers
- 65. Imperialism
- 66. Incarceration
- 67. Indigenous law
- 68. Informal norms
- 69. Infrastructure and public works
- 70. Inheritance law
- 71. Inns of Court
- 72. Intention
- 73. Jurisdiction
- 74. Justice, theories of
- 75. Law on television
- 76. Lawyers in novels
- 77. Lawyers on US television
- 78. Legal fictions
- 79. Marriage
- 80. Masculinity
- 81. Moral hazard
- 82. Murder
- 83. Music and law
- 84. Narratives in court decisions
- 85. Narratology, legal
- 86. Naturalization
- 87. Novel and the law
- 88. Obscenity
- 89. Panopticism
- 90. Pardon and forgiveness
- 91. Performance, theatricality, and spectacle (legal)
- 92. Photography
- 93. Police
- 94. Postcolonial studies
- 95. Precedent
- 96. Privacy
- 97. Property: law, theory, and fiction
- 98. Property: the view from Shakespeare's Venice
- 99. Psychoanalysis and language
- 100. Public domain
- 101. Publicity rights and celebrity
- 102. Punishment, theories of
- 103. Queer studies
- 104. Realism, legal
- 105. Realism, literary
- 106. Reconstruction: its law and literature
- 107. Refuge and asylum
- 108. Rhetoric and law
- 109. Sacred and secular law
- 110. Sanctuary and sanctuary-city
- 111. Satire
- 112. Science fiction
- 113. Self-referentiality and self-reflexivity
- 114. Slavery
- 115. Testimony
- 116. Theatre and the law
- 117. Theft and burglary
- 118. Trademark
- 119. Tragedy
- 120. Translation
- 121. Trauma
- 122. Treason
- 123. Trial jury (early modern)
- 124. Trials in literature
- 125. Trials of literature
- 126. Trusts
- 127. Truth and post-truth
- 128. Uncanny
- 129. Undocu literature
- 130. Victimization
- 131. Visual literacy: law's screen life
- 132. Wills
- 133. Witches
- 134. Witness (n. and v.).
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781803925912
- 1803925914
- OCLC:
- 1490014166
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