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...Zachary Samalin [email protected] Tanya Agathocleous , Disaffected: Emotion, Sedition, and Colonial Law in the Anglosphere ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell UP , 2021 ), pp. 234 , paper, $26.95 . Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 In May 2022 the Supreme Court of India...

...Joseph Lavery “ The Mikado' s Queer Realism: Law, Genre, Knowledge” offers a hermeneutic history of the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, arguing that the now ubiquitous assertion that it is not “about Japan” became critical only in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War and reflected a pervasive...

...), the Concession (a quirk of the established practices of law), and “that Gould” (a distinct individual). Nostromo has long been read as what Eloise Knapp Hay calls “a modern political novel”: it “laments the loss of individual self-control and the defeat of will power by anonymous social forces” ( 177...

... bears out in its plot an indictment of law's inherent abjections and an interrogation of the value of life that seem to precociously articulate the consensus of today's hegemonic biopolitical theory: that human institutions tend inexorably to subjugate humanity itself. Yet the form of the novel develops...

...RAVIT REICHMAN JONATHAN H. GROSSMAN, The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002), pp. 216, $41.00. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Law Elsewhere JONATHAN H. GROSSMAN, The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts...

... Mitchell Trust's accusation of copyright infringement took advantage of the fair use doctrine in US copyright law, which protects the literary communication of free, political speech. While Houghton Mifflin was ultimately successful—insofar as it won a favorable verdict from a court of appeals, settled out...

...MARILYN MOBLEY MCKENZIE THADIOUS M. DAVIS, Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses (Durham: Duke UP, 2003), pp. 339, $79.95. Copyright © Novel Corp. 2004 2004 Strategies of Containment: Faulkner's Narratives of Race...

... had overlooked to condemn the law's insufficient protection of mistreated wives. Salem Chapel censures the Divorce Act by provocatively juxtaposing the sensational and realistic plots of two characters—an emotionally abused mother and a vocationally dissatisfied minister—and thereby opposes moral...

...Jules Law This essay examines the concept of the inhuman as it develops across a set of Victorian novels ( Villette, Little Dorrit , and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ). The post-structuralist and postmodern idea of the inhuman, I argue, develops out of two primal scenes: the self...

... cannot see where she is going and thus cannot understand what she is doing. After this inquiry into Conrad’s mimetic anthropology we should add that what the painting also reveals, in addition to the mimetic sexism I have denounced elsewhere (Law- too, “Horror” 47–51), is a deeper logic informing...

...Rose Casey Drawing upon research into Indian property law, this essay offers a new perspective on both the feminist interventions and the aesthetic innovations of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things . This essay is the first to show how The God of Small Things' feminist critique is established...

... common-law jurisprudence of habeas corpus. To flesh out this history, the essay analyzes as an instance of dissensus the famous Somerset decision of 1772 on a writ of habeas corpus by Chief Justice of King's Bench William Murray, Lord Mansfield, upholding the freedom of an escaped slave who had been...

... and semantically) (157). If this is plausible, then the referential alibi of Trois-Pipes suggests that no amount of detail will be able to give to the fiacre passage the kind of precision or publicity demanded by the law. The text does appear to acknowledge that some things cannot be represented...

... as metaphor, reading as a case study Ian McEwan's The Children Act . McEwan's novel dramatizes a conflict between religion and the secular law, which is an example of the type of dispute that Jean-François Lyotard identifies in The Differend : a dispute that is unresolvable because the process for regulating...

... and remedy is an allegory of common law justice for victims of sexual violence: it tends to treat their complaints as malevolent prosecutions, directing legal scrutiny toward the victims of sexual violence rather than toward its perpetrators. Richardson's political critique of the legal system engenders...

...Elizabeth S. Anker This essay analyzes how Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! rewrites and overturns a number of the generic and other conventions that have typically been enlisted to theorize the novel's bearing on democracy. Political philosophy and law have advanced a number of enabling fictions...

... that Dickens's novel serves to model the metropolis as a space of artificial nature, in which everything, including the weather, bears the traces of human influence. This provides a means to reevaluate the status of realism in an artificial climate, in which the laws of nature cease to delimit the bounds...

... suggested that novelistic form belied the unknowability of mental states. To Beckett, the novel's ability to know other minds was itself fictional; the representation of character minds, he contended, should be subjected to the same psychological laws as real people. Beckett's early writings, then, ask us...

... rationality expresses this apparent contradiction: literary commercialism refers to the formal and impersonal laws of the economic market, while literary professionalism refers to the substantive ethos of service to the community and nation. In underscoring the incompatibility of the Jew and the Christian...