Guest editors: Sue Ledger and Stella Swain
This
issue uses the term 'legal fictions' against the way it is used in law,
drawing attention to the metaphorical status of language itself, to law
as language, and to legal discourse as an integral part of the webwork
of discourses which position us as subjects.
Contents and Contributors:
Josephine McDonagh Infanticide and the Nation:
The Case of Caroline Beale
David Glover Aliens, Anarchists and Detectives; Legislating the
Immigrant Body
Maria Aristodemou Language, Ethics and Imagination: Narratives
of the (M)other in Law and Literature
Ian Ward
Settling Constitutions: Law, Literature and History
Steven Connor Transcripts: Literature, Law and the Trials of the
Voice
Stella Swain Narrative and Legality in Charles Dicken's The
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Adele Wills Witnesses and Truth: Juridical Narratives and Dialogism
in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and The Moonstone
Ruth Robbins Oscar Wilde: Before the Law
Philip Leonard Degenerescent Lections: Legal Fictions in Rushdie,
Derrida and Bhabha
Joseph Valente Rehearsing the Witch Trials: Gender Injustice in
The Crucible
Sally Munt The Lesbian Outlaw
Peter Fitzpatrick In the Exigency of His Longing: Freuds's Discovery
of Law and Fiction in Totem and Taboo
Laura Marcus Oedipus Express: Trains, Trauma and Detective
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