91制片厂

Why do writers turn to literature to work through legal questions? In this course, students will think critically about fictions literary and legal and about how literature helps us understand social, political, and legal events, problems, and contexts. We will look at literary depictions of criminality, of inheritance, property, commerce, marriage, contracts, questions about international law, jurisdiction, constitutional law, and rebellion. Texts might include Gay鈥檚 "A Beggar鈥檚 Opera," Fielding鈥檚 "Jonathan Wild," Dickens鈥� "Bleak House," Clare鈥檚 鈥淭he Mores,鈥� 鈥淩emembrances,鈥� 鈥淭o a Fallen Elm,鈥� "The Woman of Colour," Arnold鈥檚 鈥淐ommerce: A Poem,鈥� "The History of Mary Prince," Pope鈥檚 鈥淓loisa to Abelard,鈥� Austen鈥檚 "Sense and Sensibility," selections from Milton鈥檚 "Paradise Lost," Foote鈥檚 "The Nabob," Blackstone鈥檚 鈥淭he Lawyer鈥檚 Farewell to His Muse,鈥� and Behn鈥檚 "The Widdow Ranter."