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Special Focus: Law and Literature This special focus issue of
Symbolism takes a look at the theoretical equation of law and
literature and its inherent symbolic dimension. The authors all
approach the subject from the perspective of literary and book
studies, foregrounding literature's potential to act as
supplementary to a very wide variety of laws spread over
historical, geographical, cultural and spatial grounds. The
theoretical ground laid here thus posits both literature and law in
the narrow sense. The articles gathered in this special issue
analyse Anglophone literatures from the Renaissance to the present
day and cover the three major genres, narrative, drama and poetry.
The contributions address questions of the law's psychoanalytic
subconscious, copyright and censorship, literary negotiations of
colonial and post-colonial territorial laws, the European 'refugee
debate' and migration narratives, fictional debates on climate
change, contemporary feminist drama and classic 19th-century legal
narratives. This volume includes two insightful analyses of poetic
texts with a special focus on the fact that poetry has often been
neglected within the field of law and literature research. Special
Focus editor: Franziska Quabeck, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat
Munster, Germany.
The Lawyer in Dickens takes a closer look at the construction of
his types of lawyers. While Dickens's critique of the legal system
and its representatives is almost proverbial, a closer look at his
lawyers uncovers a complex and ambiguous construction that
questions their status as Victorian gentlemen. These characters
offer a complex psychology that often surpasses their minor or
stereotypical role within various Dickens novels, for they act not
only as alter egos for different protagonists, but also exhibit
behaviour that reveals their abusive attitude towards women. This
book argues that Uriah Heep lays the groundwork for Dickens's
conception of the lawyer in his later works. The close analysis
identifies a strong anxiety about the uncertain social status of
professionals in the law, but also unfolds a deeply troubled
attitude towards women. The novels express admiration for the
lawyer's professional power, yet the individual characters are
simultaneously exposed as ungentlemanly. This discussion shows that
the lawyer in Dickens is a difficult creature not only because of
his professional ambition and social transgression, but also
because of his intrusion into the domestic space and into the lives
of others, especially women.
The concept of the just war poses one of the most important ethical
questions to date. Can war ever be justified and, if so, how? When
is a cause of war proportional to its costs and who must be held
responsible? The monograph Just and Unjust Wars in Shakespeare
demonstrates that the necessary moral evaluation of these questions
is not restricted to the philosophical moral and political
discourse. This analysis of Shakespeare's plays, which focuses on
the histories, tragedies and Roman plays in chronological order,
brings to light that the drama includes an elaborate and complex
debate of the ethical issues of warfare. The plays that feature in
this analysis range from Henry VI to Coriolanus and they are
analysed according to the three Aquinian principles of legitimate
authority, just cause and right intention. Also extending the
principles of analysis to more modern notions of responsibility,
proportionality and the jus in bello-presupposition, this monograph
shows that just war theory constitutes a dominant theoretical
approach to war in the Shakespearean canon.
John Locke's account of natural law, which forms the very basis of
his political philosophy, has troubled many critics over time. The
two works that shed light on Locke's theory are the early Essays on
the Law of Nature and the Second Treatise of Government, published
over 20 years later. Many critics have assumed that the early work
presents a voluntarist approach to natural law and the second a
rationalist approach, but the present analysis in this book shows
that Locke's theory is consistent. Both works present a concept of
the law of nature that must be placed between voluntarism and
rationalism. (Series: Polyptoton. Munsteraner Sammlung Akademischer
Schriften - Vol. 3)
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