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Representing justice: stories of law and literature
2006, Teaching Co.
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1598031449 9781598031447
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Table of Contents
Part 1. lecture 1. Literature as law, literature of law
lecture 2. The Old Testament as law and literature
lecture 3. Revenge and justic in Aeschylus's Oresteia
lecture 4. Community in Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus
lecture 5. Ritual order in mystery and morality plays
leture 6. Chaucer's lawyers and priests
lecture 7. Inns of Court, Royal Courts, and the Stage
lecture 8. Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596-97)
lecture 9. Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (1603-04)
lecture 10. Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (1609-11)
lecture 11. An epic trial
Milton's Paradise Lost (1667)
lecture 12. Moll Flanders (1722) ; Beggar's Opera (1727).
Part 2. lecture 13. Trial tales of Parricide Mary Blandy (1752)
lecture 14. Property and self
Edgeworth, Burney, Austen
lecture 15. Law as fog
Dicekns's Bleak House (1852-53)
lecture 16. Puritans anew
The Scarlet Letter (1850)
lecture 17. Slavery and Huckleberry Finn (1885)
lecture 18. Victorian limits
Tess and Jude the Obscure
lecture 19. Susan Glaspell's "Jury of Her Peers" (1917)
lecture 20. Kafka and 20th century anxiety about law
lecture 21. Lolita (1958) and in the Art of Confessing
lecture 22. "Witnessing" slavery in Beloved (1987)
lecture 23. Maternal infanticide
myth and judgement
lecture 24. Literature and law
past, present, future.
Edition Notes
Course consists of 24 lectures in 2 parts. Each course guidebook covers the 12 lectures contained in 2 videodiscs in one part and includes notes, timeline, glossary, biographical notes and bibliographical references.
At head of title on cover: Lecture transcript and course guidebook.
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