Teaching law and literature / edited by Austin Sarat,Cathrine O. Frank and Matthew Anderson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-495) and index.

The cultural background of the legal imagination / James Boyd White -- Law and literature as survivor / Richard H.Weisberg -- Law, literature : where are we? / Peter Brooks -- Law, literature, and the vanishing real : on the future of an interdisciplinary illusion / Julie Stone Peters -- Law, literature, and cultural unity : between celebration and lament / Robert Weisberg -- Literature, culture, and law at Duke University / Robin West -- Where the evidence leads : teaching gothic novels and the law / Diane Hoeveler -- Making crime pay in the Victorian novel survey course / Lisa Rodensky -- Teaching legal realism : a senior seminar on the realist novel and the law / Ayelet Ben-Yishai -- American undead : teaching the cultural life of civil death / Caleb Smith -- Teaching legal fiction : law and the Canterbury tales / Mary Flowers Braswell -- Teaching early modern literature through the ancient constitution / Peter C. Herman -- Law and drama in the romantic era : a model course / Victoria Myers -- Immigration, law, and American literature / Alex Feerst -- Vital visions : on teaching prison literature / D. Quentin Miller -- Using critical race theory to teach African American literature / Patricia D. Watkins -- The legal and literary animal / Alyce Miller -- Native American literature, ceremony, and law / Cristine Soliz and Harold Joseph -- Free speech and free love : the law and literature of the first amendment / Hilary Schor and Nomi Stolzenberg -- "The gollum problem" : teaching performance and / as intellectual property / Philip Auslander -- Literary evidence and legal aesthetics / Simon Stern -- An introduction to law and literature for English majors / Brook Thomas -- Law and literature as cultural and aesthetic products : studying interdisciplinary texts in tandem / Valerie Karno -- Literature and law lite : approaches in surveys and general education courses / Bridget M. Marshall -- Measure for measure : no remedy / Elliott Visconsi -- Bleak House and the connections between law and literature / Kieran Dolin -- Guilty reading : obscenity law, American modernism, and the case for teaching Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie / Florence Dore -- Literature in its legal context : Kafka / Theodore Ziolkowski -- Dostoevsky and the law / Harriet Murav -- Law and literature of the Hebrew Bible / Chaya Halberstam -- Law and revenge violence : from saga to modern fiction / David H. Fisher -- Teaching eighteenth-century law and literature : the adventures of Rivella / Susan Sage Heinzelman -- Law, literature, and feminism : broadening the canon with new texts / Nancy S. Marder -- Neutrality in law and literature : reading the Supreme Court with Joseph Conrad / Ravit Reichman -- How rhetoric shapes cultural legitimacy : teaching law students the moral syllogism / Greg Pingree -- Roger Williams and the law and literature of colonial New England / Nan Goodman -- Sangrado and the cloven foot : a case in teaching eighteenth-century law / Linda Myrsiades -- Performing the law in contemporary documentary theater / Jacqueline O'Connor -- "Fight the power" : hip-hop in the law and literature classroom / Richard Schur -- Ten kinds of law and literature texts you haven't read / Lenora Ledwon -- American blueprints : alternative declarations and constitutions in the protest tradition / Zoe Trodd.