Elgar concise encyclopedia of law and literature / edited by Robert Spoo and Simon Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spoo, Robert, Editor.

Contributor:

Spoo, Robert E., editor.

Stern, Simon, 1971- editor.

Series:

Elgar Concise Encyclopedias in Law Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Law and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 522 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edward Elgar Monographs 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.Written by an international collective of expert contributors, the Encyclopedia brings together a wide variety of perspectives on the diverse legal and literary traditions. Entries balance history, theory, criticism, and traditional legal categories such as defamation, equity, evidence, and trials. Topics covered include recognised areas of law such as blackmail, felonies, wills, and literature such as gothic fiction, satire, and tragedy. Recent and emerging topics include environmental personhood, Undocu Literature, and Black Lives Matter poetry.This Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for law students, researchers and scholars working in law or literature as separate disciplines, and in the increasingly important interdisciplinary space of law and literature.Over 130 wide-ranging entriesWritten in an engaging and accessible styleIndividual bibliographies for further readingEntries by both established and emerging scholars2-- Provided by publisher.

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 (electronic book)

1803925914

OCLC:

1490014166