The essays in this Special Issue (guest edited by Simon Stern, University of Toronto) trace out and experiment with a wide array of connections that link the theory, history, and practice of criminal law to its literary counterparts, complements, and alternatives, looking to poetry, drama, fiction, and historical narrative along the way. They expand the historical and geographical range of the field, suggesting new opportunities for comparative research, including work that pursues comparative law in the same vein as comparative literature, and that looks at the fortunes of doctrinal concepts across time and jurisdictions.
Introduction: Crime and Literature, Narrative and Doctrine
Simon Stern
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Felon and Villain: The Literary Life of Felony
Elise Wang
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Free Indirect Hearsay: Daniel Horsmanden’s Journal of the 1741 New York Conspiracy
Hannah Walser
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Law, Conscience, and Russian National Identity: “Higher Justice” in the Shadow of the War
Anna Schur
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The “Lady” Again: The Persecution, and Prosecution, of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in India
Abhinav Sekhri
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Truth, Trial, Tragedy: The Cultural Frame of Criminal Law
Daria Bayer
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