TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monika Fludernik
AU  - Greta Olson
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - In the Grip of the Law
T2  - Trials, Prisons and the Space Between
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1097792
N2  - 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.
KW  - Englisch, Prozess (Motiv), Geschichte, Kongress, Straßburg (2002), Shakespeare, UK, Südafrika, Law and Literature, Gefängnis, Literatur, Dickens, Charles, USA
LA  - English
ER  -