Fatal Fictions
Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature
Writers of fiction have always confronted topics of crime and punishment. This age-old fascination with crime on the part of both authors and readers is not surprising, given that criminal justice touches on so many political and psychological themes essential to literature, and comes equipped with a trial process that contains its own dramatic structure.This volume explores this profound and enduring literary engagement with crime, investigation, and criminal justice. The collected essays explore three themes that connect the world of law with that of fiction. First, defining and punishing crime is one of the fundamental purposes of gover…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: McAdams, Richard H. (Hrsg.) / Nussbaum, Martha C. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-061079-1
- EAN: 9780190610791
- Produktnummer: 29056075
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 21'241 KB
Über den Autor
Alison L. LaCroix is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an Associate Member of the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Ideological Origins of American Federalism and the co-editor, with Martha C. Nussbaum, of Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel (OUP 2012). Her teaching and research interests include legal history, constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, law and linguistics, and law and literature.Richard H. McAdams is the Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Expressive Powers of Law (2015) and co-editor of Fairness in Law and Economics (2013).Martha C. Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago. Her most recent book is Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice (OUP 2016).
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