Law & Literature: A Select Bibliography
By Patrick S. O’Donnell
Department of Philosophy
Santa Barbara City College (2006)
Amsterdam, Anthony G. and Jerome Bruner. Minding the Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2000.
Best, Stephen M. The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession. Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Binder, Guyora and Robert Weisburg. Literary Criticisms of Law. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2000.
Brooks, Peter. Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature. Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press, 2001.
Brooks, Peter and Paul Gewirtz, eds. Law’s Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 1998 ed.
Bruner, Jerome. Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
Crane, Gregg D. Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Crotty, Kevin M. Law’s Interior: Legal and Literary Constructions of the Self. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2001.
Curley, Thomas M. Sir Robert Chambers: Law, Literature and Empire in the Age of Johnson. Madison,
WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Dolin, Kieran. Fiction and the Law: Legal Discourse in Victorian and Modernist Literature. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Fish, Stanley. Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989.
Gemmette, Elizabeth Villiers, ed. Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Drama. Troy, NY: Whitston
Publ., 1995.
Gemmette, Elizabeth Villiers, ed. Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Short Stories. Troy, NY:
Whitston Publ., 1995.
Gemmette, Elizabeth Villiers, ed. Law in Literature: Legal Themes in Novellas. Troy, NY: Whitston
Publ., 1996.
Gladfelder, Hal. Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Glover, Susan. Engendering Legitimacy: Law, Property, and Early Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2006.
González Echevarría, Roberto. Love and the Law in Cervantes. New Haven, CT: Yale University
Press, 2005.
Goodrich, Peter. Law in the Courts of Love: Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences. New York:
Routledge, 1996.
Grey, Thomas. The Wallace Stevens Case: Law and the Practice of Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 1991.
Grossman, Jonathan H. The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore, MD: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Hanafin, Patrick, Adam Gearey and Joseph Brooker, eds. Law and Literature. Malden, MA:
Blackwell, 2004.
Heald, Paul J., ed. Literature and Legal Problem Solving: Law and Literature as Ethical Discourse.
Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1998.
Heinzelman, Susan Sage. Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism. Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 1994.
Larcombe, Wendy. Compelling Engagements: Feminism, Rape Law and Romance Fiction.
Annandale, New South Wales: Federation Press, 2005.
Ledwon, Lenora, ed. Law and Literature: Text and Theory. New York: Garland, 1996.
Lemon, Rebecca. Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare’s England.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Levinson, Sanford and Steven Mailloux, eds. Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic Reader.
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988.
Lockey, Brian C. Law and Empire in English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
Majeske, Andrew J. Equity in Renaissance Literature: Thomas More and Edmund Spenser.
New York: Routledge, 2006.
McCarthy, Conor. Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature, and Practice. Rochester,
NY: Boydell, Press, 2004.
Meyer, Michael J., ed. Literature and Law. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004.
Morris, Norval. The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law. New York: Oxford University Press,
1992.
Nussbaum, Martha C. Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life. Boston, MA: Beacon
Press, 1995.
Posner, Richard A. Law and Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, revised ed.,
1998.
Rodensky, Lisa. The Crime in Mind: Criminal Responsibility and the Victorian Novel. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003.
Ross, Charles. Elizabethan Literature and the Law of Fraudulent Conveyance: Sidney, Spenser,
and Shakespeare. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003.
St. Joan, Jacqueline and Annette Bennington McElhiney, eds. Beyond Portia: Women, Law and
Literature in the United States. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Schaller, Barry R. A Vision of American Law: Judging Law, Literature and the Stories We Tell.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.
Schramm, Jan-Melissa. Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Turner, J. Neville and Pam Williams, eds. The Happy Couple: Law and Literature. Sydney:
Federation Press, 1994.
Ward, Ian. Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 1995.
Ward, Ian. Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination. London: Butterworths, 1999.
Warren, Joyce W. Women, Money and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts.
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2005.
Weisburg, Richard H. Poethics, and Other Strategies of Law and Literature. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1992.
White, James Boyd. Heracles’ Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law. Madison, WI:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.
White, James Boyd. Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law and Politics. Chicago, IL:
University of Chicago Press, 1994.
White, R.S. Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press, 1996.
Williams, Melanie. Empty Justice: One Hundred Years of Law, Literature and Philosophy. London:
Cavendish, 2001.
Woodmansee, Martha and Peter Jaszi, eds. The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in
Law and Literature. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.
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