Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and humanities departments, this Companion touches on regulatory, statutory, and common law in nineteenth-century America and encompasses judges, lawyers, legislators, litigants, and the institutions they…mehr
Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and humanities departments, this Companion touches on regulatory, statutory, and common law in nineteenth-century America and encompasses judges, lawyers, legislators, litigants, and the institutions they inhabited (courts, firms, prisons). It will serve as a reference for specific information on a variety of law- and humanities-related topics as well as a guide to understanding how the two disciplines developed in tandem in the long nineteenth century.
Nan Goodman is Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Simon Stern is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy at the University of Toronto, Canada.
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CONTENTS
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Part I: Human Kinds
Introduction
Nan Goodman and Simon Stern
1. Women: Politics, Culture, and the Law
Joyce W. Warren
2. "The Very Idea of a Slave is a Human Being in Bondage"
Jeannine Marie DeLombard
3. The Corporation and the Transformation of American Culture
Aaron Ritzenberg
4. Deviance in Nineteenth-Century American Law and Culture
Tal Kastner
5. Comparative Racialization and American Indian Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Cheryl Suzack
6. The Legal Person: Tracing the History of a Forensic Fiction
Susanna L. Blumenthal
Part II: A New Archive
Introduction
Nan Goodman and Simon Stern
7. Law in Nineteenth-Century American Periodicals
Michael H. Hoeflich
8. Spectacular Judgments: Law and Disorder in the Nineteenth-Century
