New From Cambridge University Press: Law and Literature, edited by Kieran Dolan @CambridgeUP

Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press:

Law and Literature (Kieran Dolan, ed. 2018). Here from the publisher's website is a description of the book's contents.

Law and Literature presents an authoritative, fresh and accessible new overview of the many ways in which law and literature interact. Written by a team of international experts, it provides a multi-focused history of literary studies' critical interest in ideas of law and justice. It examines the effects of law on writers and their work, ranging from classical tragedy to comics, and from East Africa to Elizabethan England. Over twenty chapters, contributors reveal the intricate and multivalent historical interactions between law and literature, both past and present, and trace the intellectual genesis of the concept of law in literary studies, focusing on major developments in the history of the interdisciplinary project of law and literature, as well as the changing ideas of law, and the cultural contests in which it has figured. Law and Literature will appeal to graduates and scholars working on the intersection between law and literature and in key related areas such as literature and human rights.

Provides a multi-focused history of literature's critical interest in ideas of law and justice

Explores how legal concepts and practices contribute to literary studies

Presents a history of law and literature, and its contemporary applications