Law in literature : legal themes in short stories / edited by Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette.
1992
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Title
Law in literature : legal themes in short stories / edited by Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette.
Published
New York : Praeger, 1992.
Call Number
PN6120.95.L33 L38 1992
ISBN
0275940977 (alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 477 pages ; 25 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25007992
Note
Includes index
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Table of Contents
Preface
1
Natural, Divine, and Positive Law
3
"God Sees the Truth, but Waits" / Leo Tolstoy
5
Excerpts from Antigone Sophocles
11
2
Obedience to Positive Law
15
"Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby" / Donald Barthelme
18
"The Bicentennial Man" / Isaac Asimov
21
3
Equality
51
"Harrison Bergeron" / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
54
"The Lynching of Jube Benson" / Paul Laurence Dunbar
59
4
Standards and Presumptions
65
"The Corpus Delicti" / Melville Davisson Post
68
"The Benefit of the Doubt" / Jack London
88
5
Finding the Truth
103
"In A Grove" / Ryunosuke Akutagawa
105
"Story of the Chief of Old Cairo": From The Arabian Nights
112
6
The Jury System
113
"Beyond Any Doubt" / Robert O'Neil Bristow
115
"A Jury of Her Peers" / Susan Glaspell
124
7
Trial Lawyers in Action
141
"Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff" / Bret Harte
144
"Triumph of Justice" / Irwin Shaw
164
8
The Judicial Process
173
"How the Pretty Maid of Portillon Convinced Her Judge" / Honore de Balzac
176
"A Wasted Day" / Richard Harding Davis
181
9
Theories of Punishment
193
"The Two Drovers" / Walter Scott
196
"Too Dear!" / Leo Tolstoy
216
10
Capital Punishment
221
"In the Penal Colony" / Franz Kafka
224
"The Pit and the Pendulum" / Edgar Allan Poe
244
11
The Guilty Conscience
255
"The Tell-Tale Heart" / Edgar Allan Poe
258
"The Minister's Black Veil" / Nathaniel Hawthorne
262
12
Justice
273
"Mateo Falcone" / Prosper Merimee
276
"Barn Burning" / William Faulkner
285
13
Juvenile Delinquency
301
"Hard to Be Good" / Bill Barich
304
"Paul's Case" / Willa Cather
321
14
Murderers
337
"Sicilian Honor" / Luigi Pirandello
340
"Han's Crime" / Shiga Naoya
346
15
The Mens Rea
355
"The Catbird Seat" / James Thurber
358
"The Animus Furandi" / Melville Davisson Post
365
16
Defenses of Necessity and Passion
377
"Rosalie Prudent" / Guy de Maupassant
380
"The Assassin" / Guy de Maupassant
383
17
Property Concepts
389
"How Much Land Does a Man Need?" / Leo Tolstoy
392
"Under the Lion's Paw" / Hamlin Garland
404
18
Contracts and Negotiable Instruments
415
"Hippolyte's Claim" / Guy de Maupassant
418
"The Negotiable Cow" / Alan Herbert
422
19
Torts
427
"Fardell & Potts: The Reasonable Man" / Alan Herbert
429
"The Most Outrageous Consequences" / James Reid Parker
433
20
Domestic Relations
439
"Counsel for Oedipus" / Frank O'Connor
442
"Madame Filippa Is Accused of Wronging Her Husband" / Giovanni Boccaccio
451
Appendix A: Wigmore's List of Legal Novels
453
Appendix B: Weisberg and Kretschman's Expanded List of Law-Related Literary Works
457
Appendix C: Fifty Law-Related Films
463
Index
469