Literature and Law

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. . Language: English