Law and Literature
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Published in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2d edition, Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth & Imre Szeman, eds.
This encyclopedia entry provides an historical overview of the law and literature movement. It discusses the involvement of lawyers in American literature in the antebellum period, interest in judicial rhetoric and philosophy of language among progressive era legal theorists, and the turn to literary theory among American constitutional theorists and critical legal scholars during the late twentieth century. The emergence of law and literature movements in the U.K. and on the continent are also briefly discussed. Authors discussed include Ronald Dworkin, Stanley Fish, Peter Goodrich, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Weisberg, Brook Thomas, Robert Weisberg, Robin West, and J.B. White.
Publication Date
2006
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore
First Page
587
Keywords
law and literature, jurisprudence
Disciplines
Jurisprudence | Law
Recommended Citation
Guyora Binder, Law and Literature in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism (Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth & Imre Szeman, eds., The Johns Hopkins University Press 2006).
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