This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the question of 'reading' as a guiding principle, it opens up new ways of understanding case law and the doctrine of precedent by bringing the law into dialogue with the humanities. What happens when a legal case is read not only by lawyers, but by literary critics, by linguists, by philosophers, or by historians? How do film makers and writers adapt and transform legal cases in their work? How might one interpret fiction in the context of the...
This volume examines the nature, function, development and epistemological assumptions of the legal case in an interdisciplinary context. Using the qu...
How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which five novels were interpreted in the courtroom: Gustave Flaubert s Madame Bovary, Paul Bonnetain s Charlot s amuse, Henry Vizetelly s English translations of Emile Zola s La Terre, Oscar Wilde s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Radclyffe Hall s The Well of Loneliness. It argues that each...
How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-centur...
