Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Editors’ Introduction -- Elizabethan Times -- Shakespeare, Tragedy, Post-truth: Hamlet, Othello and Antony and Cleopatra -- Transfixing Shakespearean Worldliness: How Literary Texts Haunt Law and Politics -- Substitution, the Counterfeit Angel and the Imprint of Law -- Race, Ethnicity and Alterity in William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus -- The Reversal of Modernity: From Justinian in Paradise to Royal Occultism -- Do Shylock and Rumpelstiltskin win on appeal? The Justice of Silas Marner -- I crave the law : De quelques passions juridiques -- Shakespeare’s “Complex” Dance Imaginary from Text to Stage: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Frederick Ashton’s The Dream -- Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Problems of Relativity -- Hybrid Identities: Joan of Arc Between History, Drama and the Law -- From the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Century -- Johnathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and ‘The Cow Trial’: Law, Power, Justice and Eristics -- A Painted Ship and a Painted Ocean: Gregson v Gilbert revisited -- New Provinces of Writing and Legal Education: Law, Language and Society in Blackstone’s Commentaries -- Law, Clemency and the Politics of Emotion in Heinrich von Kleist’s The Prince of Homburg -- Fairy Tales and the Representation of Female Education in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters -- Female Forensics: The Woman Reader in Court in Charles Reade’s Griffith Gaunt (1866) -- Revulsion, Paradigmatic Shifts and Legal Philosophy: Oliver Wendell Holmes’s The Path of the Law and its Impact on American Legal Thought -- Il mostruoso e divino incanto: le sirene e un caso di ekphrasis -- From Modernism to Post-postmodernism -- Breaking the Silence: Cultural and Legal Encounters -- Urban Readings: The City as Text in Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin -- Embodied Monstrosity and Identitarian Fluidity in Jeanette Winterson’s Novels of the 1980s -- “In Some Dark Form I’ll Continue”: James Ellroy’s Silent Terror -- Barnes’ “The Stowaway” Between Post-Modernism and Post-Anthropocentrism -- Resilience, Narrative Attentiveness and Care(‐giving): Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow -- Displaced Memory: The Screened Past of Fugitive Pieces -- Mythic and Fairy-Tale Elements in Doris Lessing’s Mara and Dann -- “Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong?” -- Posts Manent, Lex Volat: Detective Stories in Electronic Literature -- Promethean Longing: Ridley Scott’s Speculative Legalism -- Epilogue: Back to Shakespeare and Towards the Contemporary Period -- The Rocky Horror Show as Liminal, Gothic, Monstrous, Shakespearean Biolegal Fable -- Contributors -- Index of Names and Keywords

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This volume investigates interdisciplinary intersections between law and the humanities from the Renaissance to the present day. It allows for fruitful encounters between different disciplines: from literature to science, from the visual arts to the post-human, from the postmodern novel’s experimentation to most recent approaches towards the legal interpretation of literary texts. This productive dialogue fosters original perspectives in the interpretation of and reflection upon identity, justice, power and human rights and values, thus underlining the role of literature in the articulation of relevant cultural issues pertaining to specific periods.

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