Literature and law / Mark Fortier.

Fortier, Mark, 1953-
Call Number
809/.933554
Author
Fortier, Mark, 1953- author.
Title
Literature and law / Mark Fortier.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Series
Literature and contemporary thought
Contents
A brief account of law and literature -- Literature v. law: institutions, procedures, and justice -- Natural law and fundamental justice -- Property -- Contract and tort -- Sexuality -- Evidence and truth -- On trial -- Vigilantism and extrajudicial action -- Toward law and humanities.
Summary
The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction to the area, covering the history, key thinkers and ideas as well as detailed and fascinating studies into areas such as evidence and truth, inheritance, sex, vigilantism and justice. Each chapter examines a number of familiar authors and texts including Shakespeare, Brecht, Austen, Dickens, Ishiguro, Beecher-Stowe, Atwood, Miller. The book also opens up the broader study of law as it relates to culture in such areas as film, television, and digital media and how they affect such issues as a right to privacy, copyright and creative reworking, and censorship. Mark Fortier offers a concise, systemic introduction to the law and legal system for the lay person, covering basic notions of justice and law (fundamental justice, natural law, positive law) and the legal system (common law vs civil law, case law, statute, constitutional law, private law [tort, contract, property], criminal law, equity, basic rules of evidence, stare decisis, the adversarial system) as well as a very handy glossary of legal terms. This is a fascinating guide to a very topical and increasingly relevant area of literary studies.
Subject
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Multimedia
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Summary
The fields of literature and law intersect in frequent, and often surprising ways. This clear and concise book offers an introduction to the area, covering the history, key thinkers and ideas as well as detailed and fascinating studies into areas such as evidence and truth, inheritance, sex, vigilantism and justice. Each chapter examines a number of familiar authors and texts including Shakespeare, Brecht, Austen, Dickens, Ishiguro, Beecher-Stowe, Atwood, Miller. The book also opens up the broader study of law as it relates to culture in such areas as film, television, and digital media and how they affect such issues as a right to privacy, copyright and creative reworking, and censorship. Mark Fortier offers a concise, systemic introduction to the law and legal system for the lay person, covering basic notions of justice and law (fundamental justice, natural law, positive law) and the legal system (common law vs civil law, case law, statute, constitutional law, private law [tort, contract, property], criminal law, equity, basic rules of evidence, stare decisis, the adversarial system) as well as a very handy glossary of legal terms. This is a fascinating guide to a very topical and increasingly relevant area of literary studies.
Contents
A brief account of law and literature -- Literature v. law: institutions, procedures, and justice -- Natural law and fundamental justice -- Property -- Contract and tort -- Sexuality -- Evidence and truth -- On trial -- Vigilantism and extrajudicial action -- Toward law and humanities.
Subject
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Multimedia