Includes: Representing lawyers: Edith Wharton's portrayal of lawyers and lawyering in The Touchstone and Summner / Deborah Hecht.
Contents:
Challenging the court: Charles Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition / Gwen Mathewson. The silent voices of the law / Susan Ayres. -- Law and order: exploring the British legal system in David Hare's Murmuring Judges / Karen Blansfield. -- Criminal apprehensions: Prague minorities and the Habsburg legal system in Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk and Franz Kafka's The Trial / Jenifer Cushman. -- Silence in the courtroom: language, literature and law in The Ballad of Frankie Silver / Gwen McNeill Ashburn. -- Representing lawyers: Edith Wharton's portrayal of lawyers and lawyering in The Touchstone and Summner / Deborah Hecht. -- Ritual murder and the corruption of law in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer / Eric Sterling. -- "How shall we change the law?": birth control rhetoric and the modern American narrative / Beth Widmaier Capo. -- Putting God on trial: the relationship of Kafka to Leibniz / Joseph Suglia. -- Mumia Abu-Jamal's Live from Death Row as post-legal prison writing / Brian Conniff. -- The letter of the law and Canadian letters: Joy Kogawa's Obasan / Ana María Frailé Marcos. -- Prior claims and sovereign rights: the sexual contract in Edith Wharton's Summer / Alicia Renfroe. -- Situating Atticus in the zone: a lawyer and his daughter read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird / Nancy Lawson Remler and Hugh Lawson. -- Challenging the court: Charles Chesnutt's Marrow of Tradition / Gwen Mathewson.
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