Literature and the Legal Imaginary

Subha Mukherji is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge.Dunstan Roberts is a scholar of early modern literature who has published widely on the histories of books, libraries, and reading.

• .- Part I – Introduction.- Chapter 1 – Subha Mukherji: Introduction.- Part II – Legal Imaginaries.- Chapter 2 – Julie Stone Peters: ‘Behind Justice’s Book and Sword: Knowledge, Emotion, and Judgement in the Scene of Law’.- Chapter 3 – Doyeeta Majumdar: ‘Law of Nature in Inns of Court Drama’.- Chapter 4 – Richard Sherwin: ‘Escalus’ Dream: Reimagining Shakespeare’s States’.- Part III – Text, Knowledge, Hermeneutics.- Chapter 5 – Regina Schwartz: ‘The letter and the Spirit: Portia’s Case’.- Chapter 6 – Torrance Kirby: ‘Configuring God as Law: Richard Hooker’s Poetics of Law’.- Chapter 7 – Charles McNamara: ‘The Common Consent of Words: An Aristotelian Element of Hobbesian Legal Rhetoric’.- Part IV – Play and Pleasure.- Chapter 8 – Peter Goodrich: ‘Doublings: Comedy, Office, Law’.- Chapter 9 – Maksymilian Del Mar: ‘Ludic Legal Pedagogy: Mooting in Early Modern England’.- Chapter 10 – Gary Watt: ‘“A delightful measure”: Imagining Barfield’s Poetic Jurisdiction’.- Part V – Law and Poetics.- Chapter 11 – Conrad van Dijk: ‘Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan and the allegory of law’.- Chapter 12 – Valérie Hayaert: ‘The versification of legal codes’.- Chapter 13 – Jan Melissa-Schramm: ‘Towards a Poetics of Equality in Nineteenth-Century English Literature’.- Chapter 14 – Alex Feldman: ‘The Beatitude of the Berrigans: Jurisprudential Drama.- Part VI – Afterword.- Chapter 15 – Kathy Eden: Afterword.- Index.