The Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature surveys the intersection between two important fields of study. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume showcases the many ways in which literary and legal methods and insights both converge and remain distinct.

Written by an international collective of expert contributors, the Encyclopedia brings together a wide variety of perspectives on the diverse legal and literary traditions. Entries balance history, theory, criticism, and traditional legal categories such as defamation, equity, evidence, and trials. Topics covered include recognised areas of law such as blackmail, felonies, wills, and literature such as gothic fiction, satire, and tragedy. Recent and emerging topics include environmental personhood, Undocu Literature, and Black Lives Matter poetry.

This Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for law students, researchers and scholars working in law or literature as separate disciplines, and in the increasingly important interdisciplinary space of law and literature.

Over 130 wide-ranging entries

Written in an engaging and accessible style

Individual bibliographies for further reading

Entries by both established and emerging scholars

?This Encyclopedia is wonderfully versatile. Many of its scholarly entries serve as primers on the key principles and analytic tools for understanding the rich interactions between legal thinking and writing and literary and rhetorical forms. Others exhibit dazzling creativity in identifying the catalytic relationships between law literature as sources of insight into all manner of social, political, and economic issues,placing them in a richly generative cultural context. Overall, this is an indispensable guide to the capacious world of law and the Humanities.?

Table of Contents:

Contents
Preface xiii
1 Abolition 1
Jess A. Goldberg
2 Admiralty and maritime law 5
Hayley Cotter
3 Adultery 9
Erin Sheley
4 Advertising 13
Anat Rosenberg
5 Affect 17
Kathryn Temple
6 Aggadah and Halakha:
literature alongside law 21
Shulamit Almog
7 Atrocity, law, and literature 23
Richard H. Weisberg
8 Authorship and publishing 27
Mark Rose
9 Automobiles 31
Kieran Tranter
10 Biblical law 35
Yael Landman
11 Black Lives Matter poetry 38
Almas Khan
12 Blackmail 42
Joseph Bristow
13 Blasphemy culture, blasphemy law 46
Elliott Visconsi
14 Body 49
Jolene Zigarovich
15 Canon law 53
Grace Delmolino
16 Canonization, canons, canon formation 57
Peter Schneck
17 Causation 61
Thomas Dikant
18 Censorship, informal and formal 65
Jay A. Gertzman
19 Citizenship 70
Leti Volpp
20 Civil law 74
Jeanne Gaakeer
21 Civil rights 78
Charlton Copeland
22 Climate change 82
Andrew Majeske
23 Clinical legal education from
a humanistic perspective 86
Flora Di Donato
24 Comedy and the law 91
Lars Engle
25 Common law reasoning 94
Maksymilian Del Mar
26 Confession 98
Peter Brooks
27 Consent in literary works 102
Sara Murphy
28 Contract and boilerplate 106
Tal Kastner
29 Copyright: characters and adaptation 110
Betsy Rosenblatt
30 Copyright: sc?nes ? faire 114
Zahr K. Said
31 Copyright and journalism 118
Will Slauter
32 Copyright in the theatre 122
Derek Miller
33 Corporation 126
Peter Jaros
34 Courtrooms (eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century, British) 131
Adam Kozaczka
35 Crime fiction 135
Guyora Binder
36 Death penalty 140
Birte Christ
37 Defamation 144
Sean Latham
38 Despotism 148
Adam Schoene
39 Detective fiction 152
Simon Stern
40 Divine accommodation and
the legal imagination 155
Nomi Maya Stolzenberg
41 Early New England law 159
Nan Goodman
42 Eighth Amendment and ?cruel
and unusual? punishment 163
Lisa Haber-Thomson
43 Environmental (or nonhuman)
personhood 168
Paul K. Saint-Amour
44 Equity 172
Mark Fortier
45 Ethics: law and literature as an
ethical enterprise 175
David S. Caudill
46 Evidence (early modern law and drama) 179
Lorna Hutson
47 Evidence (fiction and narrative) 183
Geoffrey A. Baker
48 Fan fiction 187
Rebecca Tushnet
49 Felony 191
Elise Wang
50 Film industry 195
Peter Decherney
51 Forgery (financial, historical,
and literary) 198
Mark Osteen
52 Forgery (literary and cultural) 203
Gregory Mackie
53 Free speech 206
Trevor Ross
54 Freedom suit 210
Faith Barter
55 Fundamentalism 214
Klaus Stierstorfer
56 Gender and modernism 218
Celia Marshik
57 Gothic fictions 222
Jayne Lewis
58 Guardianship 226
Sarah Raff
59 Habeas corpus 230
Sarah Winter
60 Hate speech 234
Martha M. Umphrey
61 Higher law 238
Geoffrey R. Kirsch
62 Human rights 242
Elizabeth S. Anker
63 Identification and identity 246
Rex Ferguson
64 Identification papers 249
Nissa Ren Cannon
65 Imperialism 253
Tanya Agathocleous
66 Incarceration 257
Monika Fludernik
67 Indigenous law 261
Cheryl Suzack
68 Informal norms 265
Matthew H. Birkhold
69 Infrastructure and public works 268
David Alff
70 Inheritance law 272
Rose Casey
71 Inns of Court 276
Jessica Apolloni
72 Intention 280
Lisa Siraganian
73 Jurisdiction 284
Edward Mussawir
74 Justice, theories of 287
Jennifer Jahner
75 Law on television 291
William MacNeil
76 Lawyers in novels 295
Mark Schoenfield
77 Lawyers on US television 299
Christine Corcos
78 Legal fictions 304
Simon Stern
79 Marriage 307
Melissa J. Ganz
80 Masculinity 312
Marco Wan
81 Moral hazard 315
Sharif Youssef
82 Murder 319
Chase Burton
83 Music and law 323
Robbie Sykes and Kieran Tranter
84 Narratives in court decisions 327
Frode Helmich Pedersen
85 Narratology, legal 330
Ralph Grunewald
86 Naturalization 334
Stephanie DeGooyer
87 Novel and the law 337
Hilary Schor
88 Obscenity 342
Katherine Mullin
89 Panopticism 346
Claire Wrobel
90 Pardon and forgiveness 350
Haiyan Lee
91 Performance, theatricality, and
spectacle (legal) 354
Julie Stone Peters
92 Photography 359
Monica Huerta
93 Police 363
Jeannine Marie DeLombard
94 Postcolonial studies 367
Jack Quirk
95 Precedent 372
Ayelet Ben-Yishai
96 Privacy 376
Cathrine O. Frank
97 Property: law, theory, and fiction 381
Ravit Reichman
98 Property: the view from
Shakespeare?s Venice 385
Carol M. Rose
99 Psychoanalysis and language 390
David Gurnham and Haris Psarras
100 Public domain 394
Robert Spoo
101 Publicity rights and celebrity 398
Mark Bartholomew
102 Punishment, theories of 402
John Cyril Barton
103 Queer studies 406
Hannal Manshel
104 Realism, legal 410
Dan Priel
105 Realism, literary 414
Christine Holbo
106 Reconstruction: its law and literature 417
Brook Thomas
107 Refuge and asylum 421
Angela Naimou
108 Rhetoric and law 425
Andrew Zurcher
109 Sacred and secular law 429
Adam Gearey
110 Sanctuary and sanctuary-city 432
Benjamin Woodring
111 Satire 437
Andrew Benjamin Bricker
112 Science fiction 441
Mitchell Travis and Kieran Tranter
113 Self-referentiality and self-reflexivity 445
Hans Lind
114 Slavery 449
Christopher Brown
115 Testimony 453
Dale Barleben
116 Theatre and the law 458
Alex Feldman
117 Theft and burglary 464
Eloise Moss
118 Trademark 467
Jonathan Goldman
119 Tragedy 471
Julen Etxabe
120 Translation 475
Mark Firmani
121 Trauma 480
Belinda Qian He
122 Treason 484
Rebecca Lemon
123 Trial jury (early modern) 488
Penelope Geng
124 Trials in literature 492
Kieran Dolin
125 Trials of literature 496
Ralf Gru?ttemeier
126 Trusts 500
Gary Watt
127 Truth and post-truth 504
Angela Condello
128 Uncanny 508
Stefan Andriopoulos
129 Undocu literature 512
Esmeralda Arrizón-Palomera
130 Victimization 516
Greta Olson
131 Visual literacy: law?s screen life 520
Richard K. Sherwin
132 Wills 524
Cathrine O. Frank
133 Witches 528
Ian Ward
134 Witness (n. and v.) 532
Nicole Mansfield Wright