San Antonio College Library

Volume 1 includes writings by Cervantes, Dickens, Terence Rattigan, Lewis Carroll, Guy de Maupassant, Jack London, Anton Chekhov, John Galsworthy, Luigi Pirandello, Sholom Aleichem, W.S. Gilbert, Frank O'Connor, Shiga Naoya, Anatole France, Agatha Christie, Arthur C. Train, Karel Capek, Mark Twain, John Mortimer, Herman Wouk, A.A. Milne, William Faulkner, Honore de Balzac, Sir Walter Scott, James Reid Parker, Theobald Mathew, W. Somerset Maugham,...

In this unique collection of interviews, the top lawyer-novelists of our day discuss the inner workings of their craft--from the moral explorations of Louis Auchincloss to the dynamic thrills of Scott Turow.

James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism. As a prolific and experimental author with a marginal perspective-a black man during segregation and the Civil Rights era, a homosexual at a time when tolerance toward gays was not common-Baldwin has fascinated readers for over half a century. Yet Baldwin's critics have tended to separate his weighty,...

"In this new collection, leading scholars analyze Shakespeare's plays to show how they shape issues arising from the interpretation of statute and common law as well as respond to new ideas of contract, the rights of subordinates, and the demands of the market. These essays explore what happens to law when it is rendered in fiction, illustrating the complementary relations between play text and legal text, between the dramatization of conflicts on...

In Contempt: Nineteenth-Century Women, Law, and Literature, by Kristin Kalsem, explores the legal advocacy performed by nineteenth-century women writers in publications of nonfiction and fiction, as well as in real-life courtrooms and in the legal forum provided by the novel form. The nineteenth century was a period of unprecedented reform in laws affecting married women's property, child support and custody, lunacy, divorce, birth control, domestic...

Attempts to relate Shakespeare's treatment of the language and content of the law with the political ideas of his day.

"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...

R.S. White explores the moral & political foundations of high Romantic literature in England, focusing on the public debate of the 'natural rights' of man & how this was reflected in the literature of the time.