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Book SynopsisOnce hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question is whether the law and literature enterprise has lived up to its initial promise. This is a contemporary study of law and literature. It includes contributions by an international group of leading scholars.
Table of Contents“E proboscis unum: Law, literature, love, and the limits of sovereignty”. What is it like to be like that? The progress of law and literature's “other” project. The law, the norm, and the novel. Aesthetic judgment and legal justification. Textual properties: The limit of law and literature – Towards a Gothic jurisprudence. “Reading as if for life”: Law and literature is more important than ever. African American literature and the law. EDITORIAL BOARD. List of Contributors. Edited by. Edited by. Copyright page.
