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"Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper's Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown's shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law's living oracles, but offenders were...
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"How many lawyers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Depends; how many can you afford? The popular image of lawyers is taking a beating. Ironically, at a time when more people than ever hire lawyers, few want to defend them. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, finds in Shakespeare's drama the way toward a new respect for the profession and its place in contemporary society." "It is no wonder that lawyers and judges quote the Bard more than...
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"The rise of the Inns of Court (the English legal societies) and their internal organization are described, followed by a study of these societies and their theatrical entertainments ... Special attention is paid to the masques and their elaborate productions between 1526 and 1683 ... The author's evidence indicates that the supposedly humorless profession of lawyers was sufficiently capable of ridiculing itself in dramatic satire, and of offering...
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Weaving together legal and literary history, Cross-examinations of law and literature focuses on one aspect of antebellum American culture: the unique relationship between law and literature. Thomas reads legal history through the lens of individual works of literature (Cooper's The Pioneers, Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and selected works by Melville), to show how the period's legal reasoning achieves much of...
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