New Directions in Law and Literature

Elizabeth S. Anker is Associate Professor of English and Associate Member of the Faculty of Law at Cornell University. Her first book is Fictions of Dignity: Embodying Human Rights in World Literature (Cornell 2012), and her edited collection Critique and Postcritique (with Rita Felski) is forthcoming in March 2017 with Duke University Press. She is completing two books, On Paradox and Our Constitutional Metaphors.Bernadette Meyler is the Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law at Stanford University, where she writes and teaches on English and American constitutional law and law and the humanities. She was previously a Professor of Law and English at Cornell University and has published widely in both law reviews and peer reviewed journals. She is currently completing two books--Common Law Originalism and Theaters of Pardoning.

• Part One-Genealogies and Futures 1) Elizabeth S. Anker and Bernadette Meyler, "Introduction"2) Brook Thomas, "Minding Previous Steps Taken"3) Caleb Smith, "Who Wouldn't Want to Be a Person? Histories of the Present in Law and Literature"4) Austin Sarat, "From Charisma to Routinization and Beyond: Speculations on the Future of the Study of Law and Literature" Part Two-Methods5) Martin Jay Stone, "There's No Such Thing as Interpreting a Text"6) Peter Brooks, "Retrospective Prophecies: Legal Narrative Constructions"7) Ravit Reichman, "Law's Affective Thickets"8) Janet Halley, "Paranoia, Feminism, Law: Reflections on the Possibilities of Queer Legal Studies"9) Lorna Hutson, "Proof and Probability: Law, Imagination and the Forms of Things Unknown"10) Bernadette Meyler, "Law, Literature, History: The Love Triangle"11) Peter Goodrich, "Pictures as Precedents: The Visual Turn and the Status of Figures in Judgments"12) Julie Stone Peters, "Law as Performance: Historical Interpretation, Objects, Lexicons, and Other Methodological Problems"13) Elizabeth S. Anker, "Globalizing Law and Literature" Part Three-Cases14) Anne Cheng, "Ornament and Law"15) Imani Perry, "The Flowers Are Vexed: Gender Justice, Black Literature, and the Passionate Utterance"16) Eric Cheyfitz and Shari Huhndorf, "Genocide by Other Means: U.S. Federal Indian Law and Violence Against Native Women in Louise Erdrich's The Round House"17) Elliott Visconsi, "Pluralism, Religion, and Democratic Culture: Nadeem Aslam's Maps for Lost Lovers"18) Elizabeth Emens, "Regulatory Fictions: On Marriage and Countermarriage"19) Simon Stern, "Legal and Literary Fictions"20) Paul Saint-Amour, "Copyright and Intellectual Property"21) Priscilla Wald, "Replicant Being: Law and Strange Life in the Age of Biotechnology"22) Wai Chee Dimock, "Weak Reparation: Law and Literature Networked" AcknowledgmentsContributorsBibliographyIndex

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