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| Introduction | xiii | |
| 1. | In The Grip of Law: The Prisonization of American Society | xiii |
| 2. | Literary Perspectives on Trials | xix |
| 3. | Literary Prison Worlds--Images of Incarceration | xxv |
| 4. | Law and Literature versus Law as Literature: Dissenting Opinions | xxx |
| 5. | Overview of the Volume | xli |
| 6. | Closing Remarks | xlv |
| Part I | Trials | 1 |
| Captain Kidd and the King: Piracy and Politics in Restoration England | 3 | |
| "Thereupon There Were Produced Three False Witnesses...": Trial Scenes in Elizabethan Sacred Biography | 23 | |
| Law as Thought Pattern and Ordering Principle in Shakespeare's Trial Scenes | 43 | |
| Representations of the British Legal System in Twentieth-Century Popular Courtroom Drama | 65 | |
| Trials of Law and Language: Caleb Williams and John Horne Tooke | 83 | |
| Circulating Ideas of Democracy: The Legal Culture of the High Treason Trials of 1794 | 105 | |
| Part II | Prisons | 125 |
| Errands into the Carceral Wilderness: Fictions of Imprisonment as Narratives of Social Alterity | 127 | |
| Prison Metaphors--The Carceral Imaginary? | 145 | |
| Realities of the Prison: Dickens, Scott, and the Secularization of their Eighteenth-Century Inheritance | 169 | |
| The Innocent Convict: Character, Reader Sympathy, and the Nineteenth-Century Prison in Little Dorrit | 185 | |
| Prison, Passion, and the Female Gaze: Twentieth-Century Representations of Nineteenth-Century Panopticons | 205 | |
| Percival Everett's Glyph: Prisons of the Body Physical, Political, and Academic | 223 | |
| Bodies Behind Bars: The Disciplining of the Prisoner's Body in British and American Prison Movies | 241 | |
| Caliban Revisited: Robben Island in the Autobiographical Record | 271 | |
| Contributors | 289 |
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Anita Sessa
reviewed In the grip of the law on January 25, 2019
In the grip of the law
Only read first two and last two chapters for class. Had to write a paper on it. I must say that I agree with some of her theories but I do not like the writing style.
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