Critical Introduction to Law and Literature Book

Preface     vii=970 01tIntroduction to law and literature: walking the boundary   Robert Frost$dThe Supreme Court     1
Eminent Domains: The Text of the Law and the Law of the Text     17
Law's language     19
Literature under the law     41
Law and Literature in History     73
Renaissance humanism and the new culture of contract     75
Crime and punishment in the eighteenth century     96
The woman question in Victorian England     120
The common law and the ache of modernism     143
Rumpole in Africa: law and literature in post-colonial society     166
Race and representation in contemporary America     182
Conclusion     207
Notes     213
Bibliography     235
Index     260