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Secrets and laws : collected essays in law, lives, and literature /
These essays by Melanie Williams range across several fields of law, literature, social history and ethics. In each chapter a particular legal case, literary text or poem acts as a focus for a topical debate that highlights controversy or secrecy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press : Cavendish Pub.,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Jurisprudence, politics, war and the message--messages at war : Auden's "September 1, 1939"
- Nationhood and identity--RS Thomas : ministering otherness
- Ethics, law and assisted suicide : reclaiming the sanctity of death
- Choices and censorship--play of fame and infamy : John van Druten, playwright and lawyer
- A media hijack--rape, householder defence : legal debates taken hostage by straw dogs
- Popular media, sex and violence : nature or nurture--savage or citizen? : the crash of the moral mirror
- Laws, morals, marriage and cohabitation--virtuous individuals and venal laws : Hardy's eternal message for attitudes to marriage and cohabitation
- Expert evidence, insanity, nullity--medico-legal stories of female insanity : three nullity suits
- Rape or seduction? : facts and fictions--law, literature and the "ideal" victim--"is Alec a rapist?" : a reply to Professor John Sutherland.