Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature /
"Lawyers and fiction writers have always confronted crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equipped...
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2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. On my careers in crime / Scott Turow
- Part I. Criminal Histories: 2. Mercy at the Areopagus: a Nietzschean account of justice and joy in the Eumenides / Daniel Telech ; 3. Suborning perjury: a case study of narrative precedent in Talmudic law / Barry Scott Wimpfheimer ; 4. A man for all treasons: crimes by and against the Tudor state in the novels of Hilary Mantel / Alison L. LaCroix ; 5. Representing Anne Green: historical and literary form, and the scenes of the crime in Oxford, 1651 / Marina Leslie ; 6. Cold-blooded and high minded murder: the "case" of Othello / Richard Strier and Richard H. McAdams ; 7. What's love got to do with it? sexual exploitation in Measure for Measure / Pamela Foa
- Part II. Race and Crime: 8. Justice Thomas and Bigger Thomas / Justin Driver ; 9. Reconciliation without anger: Paton's Cry, the beloved country / Martha C. Nussbaum
- Part III. Responsibility and Violence: 10. .Kidnap, credibility, and the collector / Saul Levmore ; 11. Premeditation and responsibility in The Stranger / Jonathan Masur ; 12. Walking away: lessons from "Omelas" / Saira Mohamed and Melissa Murray ; 13. Before the law: imagining crimes against trees / Mark Payne
- Part IV. Suspicion and Investigation: 14. Crime scenes: fictions of security in the antebellum American borderlands / Caleb Smith ; 15. Sleuthing toward Bethlehem : Oxford's Tarama, Jerusalem's Ohayon, and historical devices in detective fiction / Steven Wilf