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The Corporate Forms Of Antebellum Us Literature

by Peter (Associate Professor Of English, Associate Professor Of English, Franklin & Marshall College) Jaros

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 How did nineteenth-century writers contend with corporations, and how can their work inform our own confrontations with the corporate form? This book shows how writers apprehended the corporation in sophisticated and often funny ways in the wake of Dartmouth v. Woodward, which enshrined the definition of the corporation in American jurisprudence.
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Law As Performance - Theatricality, Spectatorship, And The Making Of Law In Ancient, Medieval, And Early Modern Europe

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 Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a form of theatre, a tradition that ancient, medieval, early modern, and later theorists transmitted across centuries, continually elaborating and reworking it to suit changing conditions.
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Imagining The American Death Penalty - The Cultural Work Of Popular Visual Representations

by Birte Christ

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the US American cultural imaginary of capital punishment through popular visual representations from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on three generic and historical clusters of representations: early film from the 1890s through Intolerance (1916), crime film noir of the 1950s and1960s, and legal TV series from the 1990s through the early 2000s. The book makes two central arguments. First, it demonstrates that an increased concern with the death penalty in popular media does not mean that these texts promote an abolitionist agenda: their cultural work is ambiguous at best. This ambiguity is always contingent upon both the affordances of the particular genre and medium in question and on political-legal discursive context. The book explores both in detail. Early film is enchanted with its own representational possibilities due to the progress of technology and, in analogy, with the progress in execution technique, specifically the electric chair. In film noir, genre conventions and the legal back-and-forth before and after Furman predicate ambiguity. In legal TV series, the genre's ensemble casts and its focus on conversational exchange invite open debate. The second argument is that popular visual representations consistently whitewash the death penalty. The book demonstrates that this is the case because the most common narrative around executions in film and TV is to cast the condemned man as a hero who defies the violence of the state, gains dignity by accepting his fate and faults, and in some ways triumphs over death. The American imaginary, until very recently, did or could not imagine Black men to possess that measure of agency that it attributed to its white heroes.
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Imagining The American Death Penalty - The Cultural Work Of Popular Visual Representations

by Birte Christ

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the US American cultural imaginary of capital punishment through popular visual representations from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on three generic and historical clusters of representations: early film from the 1890s through Intolerance (1916), crime film noir of the 1950s and1960s, and legal TV series from the 1990s through the early 2000s. The book makes two central arguments. First, it demonstrates that an increased concern with the death penalty in popular media does not mean that these texts promote an abolitionist agenda: their cultural work is ambiguous at best. This ambiguity is always contingent upon both the affordances of the particular genre and medium in question and on political-legal discursive context. The book explores both in detail. Early film is enchanted with its own representational possibilities due to the progress of technology and, in analogy, with the progress in execution technique, specifically the electric chair. In film noir, genre conventions and the legal back-and-forth before and after Furman predicate ambiguity. In legal TV series, the genre's ensemble casts and its focus on conversational exchange invite open debate. The second argument is that popular visual representations consistently whitewash the death penalty. The book demonstrates that this is the case because the most common narrative around executions in film and TV is to cast the condemned man as a hero who defies the violence of the state, gains dignity by accepting his fate and faults, and in some ways triumphs over death. The American imaginary, until very recently, did or could not imagine Black men to possess that measure of agency that it attributed to its white heroes.
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Belief In Evidence In The Nineteenth-Century Novel

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 Belief in Evidence addresses a question fundamental to both the law and our daily experience: how do we form beliefs? Geoffrey Baker offers a multifaceted and nuanced account of how thinkers in the nineteenth-century--from Mary Shelley and Jane Austen to Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope--grappled with the complex nature of belief.
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Imagining The American Death Penalty - The Cultural Work Of Popular Visual Representations

by Birte (Giessen University) Christ

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 Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the ways in which US American culture represented capital punishment in film and television from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on early film, crime film noir, and legal TV series.
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Making Of Felony Procedure In Middle English Literature

by Elise Wang

~~77,29€~~ 69,56€ 10% OFF

 The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. But those whose job it was to write about the law rarely wrote about felony. Its definition was left to its practice--from investigation to conviction--and that procedure fell to local communities who were generally untrained in the law. Left with many practical and ethical questions and few legal answers, they turned to cultural ones, archived in sermons they had heard, plays they had seen, and poetry they knew. This book reads the documents of criminal procedure--coroners'' reports, plea rolls, and gaol delivery records--alongside literary scenes of investigation, interrogation, and witnessing to tell a new intellectual history of criminal procedure''s beginnings.The chapters of The Making of Felony Procedure guide the reader through the steps of a felony prosecution, from act to conviction, examining the questions local communities faced at each step. What evidence should be prioritized in a death investigation? Should the accused consider narrative satisfaction when building his plea? What are the dangers of a witnessing system that depends so heavily on a few "oathworthy" men? What can a jury do if the accused''s guilt seems partial or complex? And what if the defendant-for whatever reason--refuses to participate in this new, still--delicate system of justice? The book argues that answers they found, and the sources that informed them, created the system that became modern criminal procedure. The epilogue offers some thoughts about the resilience and incoherence of the concept of felony, from the start of the jury trial to the present day.
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Making Of Felony Procedure In Middle English Literature

by Elise Wang

~~77,29€~~ 69,56€ 10% OFF

 The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature explores the literary inheritance of criminal procedure in thirteenth to fifteenth century English law, focusing on felony, the gravest common law offense. Most scholarship in medieval law and literature has focused on statute and theory, drawing from the instantiating texts of English law: acts of Parliament, judicial treatises, the Magna Carta. But those whose job it was to write about the law rarely wrote about felony. Its definition was left to its practice--from investigation to conviction--and that procedure fell to local communities who were generally untrained in the law. Left with many practical and ethical questions and few legal answers, they turned to cultural ones, archived in sermons they had heard, plays they had seen, and poetry they knew. This book reads the documents of criminal procedure--coroners'' reports, plea rolls, and gaol delivery records--alongside literary scenes of investigation, interrogation, and witnessing to tell a new intellectual history of criminal procedure''s beginnings.The chapters of The Making of Felony Procedure guide the reader through the steps of a felony prosecution, from act to conviction, examining the questions local communities faced at each step. What evidence should be prioritized in a death investigation? Should the accused consider narrative satisfaction when building his plea? What are the dangers of a witnessing system that depends so heavily on a few "oathworthy" men? What can a jury do if the accused''s guilt seems partial or complex? And what if the defendant-for whatever reason--refuses to participate in this new, still--delicate system of justice? The book argues that answers they found, and the sources that informed them, created the system that became modern criminal procedure. The epilogue offers some thoughts about the resilience and incoherence of the concept of felony, from the start of the jury trial to the present day.
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Law At The Movies - Turning Legal Doctrine Into Art

by Stanley Fish

~~25,16€~~ 22,64€ 10% OFF

 Stanley Fish focuses on well-known movies (such as Anatomy of a Murder, Twelve Angry Men, or A Man for All Seasons) that take law as their subject, and explains how legal doctrine is made into the stuff of plot and character. A book for movie lovers written in an accessible and engaging style.
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Law At The Movies - Turning Legal Doctrine Into Art

by Stanley Fish

~~25,16€~~ 22,64€ 10% OFF

 Stanley Fish focuses on well-known movies (such as Anatomy of a Murder, Twelve Angry Men, or A Man for All Seasons) that take law as their subject, and explains how legal doctrine is made into the stuff of plot and character. A book for movie lovers written in an accessible and engaging style.
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The Making Of Felony Procedure In Middle English Literature

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 This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal ideas. Medieval lawmen found felony distasteful, leaving its definition and prosecution to ordinary people. Wang argues they turned to literary dramatic, and religious sources for their ideas of evidence, proof, and guilt.
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Law At The Movies - Turning Legal Doctrine Into Art

by Prof Stanley (Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor And Professor Of Law, Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor And Professor Of Law, Florida International Un

~~35,14€~~ 31,63€ 10% OFF

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 Stanley Fish focuses on well-known movies (such as Anatomy of a Murder, Twelve Angry Men, or A Man for All Seasons) that take law as their subject, and explains how legal doctrine is made into the stuff of plot and character. A book for movie lovers written in an accessible and engaging style.
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Tolkien On Chaucer, 1913-1959

by John M. (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, University Of Nevada) Bowers e Peter (Instructor Of English, Instructor Of English, Bishop Gorman High School) Steffensen

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 Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major source of inspiration for all of Tolkien's creative works, most notably The Lord of the Rings.
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Judicial Uses Of Images - Vision In Decision

by Peter Goodrich

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 This volume explores the use of images in legal decisions and its impact upon the transmission and authority of law. It addresses the impact of graphics, gifs, emojis, pictures, screenshots, photographs, film, and animÃ© on judicial reasoning.
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Judicial Uses Of Images - Vision In Decision

by Peter Goodrich

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 This volume explores the use of images in legal decisions and its impact upon the transmission and authority of law. It addresses the impact of graphics, gifs, emojis, pictures, screenshots, photographs, film, and animÃ© on judicial reasoning.
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Judicial Uses Of Images - Vision In Decision

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 This volume explores the use of images in legal decisions and its impact upon the transmission and authority of law. It addresses the impact of graphics, gifs, emojis, pictures, screenshots, photographs, film, and animÃ© on judicial reasoning.
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Libel And Lampoon - Satire In The Courts, 1670-1792

by Andrew Benjamin Bricker

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 Explores the mutually shaping influences of legal developments over the eighteenth century and the expression and form of satire in the period, from satirical literature to non-verbal forms including caricature.
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Libel And Lampoon - Satire In The Courts, 1670-1792

by Andrew Benjamin Bricker

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 Explores the mutually shaping influences of legal developments over the eighteenth century and the expression and form of satire in the period, from satirical literature to non-verbal forms including caricature.
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Modernism And The Meaning Of Corporate Persons

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 Exploring legal treatises, court decisions, political illustrations, photographs, and modernist literature, this volume reveals that the ambiguous status of corporate intention in the first half of the twentieth century provoked conflicting theories of meaning and interpretation still debated today.
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From Law And Literature To Legality And Affect

by Greta Olson

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 Shows how the ideological standpoints of fictional texts, legal phenomena, and social media are central to understanding law as a source of legal identities. This volume takes stock of the pluralization and diversification of the field of law and literature over fifty years.
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Bank Politics - Structural Reform In Comparative Perspective

by Scott (Reader In Political Economy, Reader In Political Economy, King'S College London) James

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 This book examines the response of financial regulators to the problem of banks being 'too big to fail'. David Howarth and Scott James explore the politics of bank structural reform across six key jurisdictions, and propose a novel framework for analysing the influence of financial industry influence.
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From Law And Literature To Legality And Affect

by Greta Olson

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 Shows how the ideological standpoints of fictional texts, legal phenomena, and social media are central to understanding law as a source of legal identities. This volume takes stock of the pluralization and diversification of the field of law and literature over fifty years.
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Law As Performance - Theatricality, Spectatorship, And The Making Of Law In Ancient, Medieval, And Early Modern Europe

by Julie Stone Peters

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 Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a form of theatre, a tradition that ancient, medieval, early modern, and later theorists transmitted across centuries, continually elaborating and reworking it to suit changing conditions.
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Law As Performance - Theatricality, Spectatorship, And The Making Of Law In Ancient, Medieval, And Early Modern Europe

by Julie Stone Peters

86,11€ + 10% CARD

 Explores the history of legal theatricality from antiquity to the eighteenth-century. It recovers a long tradition of jurisprudential thought about law as a form of theatre, a tradition that ancient, medieval, early modern, and later theorists transmitted across centuries, continually elaborating and reworking it to suit changing conditions.
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