| In the Grip of the Law: Trials, Prisons and the Space Between Contributor(s): Fludernik, Monika (Editor), Olson, Greta (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3631524552 ISBN-13: 9783631524558 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $100.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Law - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.92 lbs) 299 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book contributes significantly to Law and Literature studies. Arguing for the political relevance of their work, the editors open the volume with an introduction that summarizes topical developments in law enforcement and penal politics including the 'prisonization' of American society and popular support for no tolerance approaches to crime. The fourteen essays that follow - six on trials and eight on prisons - discuss subjects ranging from the political ramifications of Captain Kidd's trials for piracy to a reading of South African prison memoirs and include treatments of prison films, courtroom dramas and works by Dickens, Shakespeare and Scott. The volume demonstrates powerfully how concepts of criminality are constructed and how literature participates in, and sometimes enhances, general discursive traditions of adversarial litigation and carcerality. |