Law and Literature in Europe and Beyond

This book aims to contribute to an understanding of the processes in which law and literature combine in conceptualizing Europe. This can take place with regard to important national and local issues of wider significance, or in the establishment of connections between European nations, but also far beyond the confines of Europe, where European concepts of law and literature have had cultural effects.

Deals with European issues from the perspective of law and literature research The spectrum of topics ranges from the beginnings in antiquity to the present day with global perspectives Offers genuine interdisciplinary perspectives

Autorentext

Klaus Stierstorfer is Professor for British Studies at University of Muenster, Germany.

Inhalt

.- Law and Literature in Europe and Beyond: Introduction (Klaus Stierstorfer).
.- Athena as Initiator of the Judicial Role (Shulamit Almog).
.- Titus's Rome and Shakespeare's England: The 'Tragic Conflict' Between Law and Equity in Titus Andronicus (Rabea Conrad).
.- Blood on the Continent or What is a Gentleman? A Tale of Two Cities (Franziska Quabeck).
.- D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and The Legal Overreach in its Ban: A Study of the Implications for Law and Literature (Onyebuchi James Ile and Sr. Adaoma Igwedibia).
.- 'Vox Populi' v. Codified Law: An Amicus Curiae Brief (Jan B. Gordon).
.- Mapping Literary Trials. What Judicial Archives Can and Cannot Do About the Dearth of Evidence (Ralf Grüttemeier).
.- Mediators as the Founding Fathers of Literary Autonomy in Law: The Case of Ernest Polak (Lotte van den Bosch).
.- The Resonance of Literary-Related Court Cases in Dutch Parliamentary Debates. Key Moments and Strategic Referencing (Lina L. Blank).
.- Narrating Europe a literary analysis of legal critique between Ex-Yugoslavia and Vienna using the example of Juli Zeh's debut novel Adler und Engel (Alina Wolski).
.- Old Law and Legal Culture in the Literature of Polish Romanticism (Piotr Pilarczyk).
.- Law and (which?) Literature: Capture Theory, Law and the Poetry of Wole Soyinka (Owojecho Omoha).
.- Narrative Comparatives of Social Media Comments During the Pandemic in Australia and Germany (Cassandra Sharp).