Ariel and Caliban as Law-conscious Servants Longing for Legal Personhood

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1: The Sublime of Law 1
4. Introduction 2: On the Threshold and Beyond: An Introductory Observation 15
5. Representing Law: Narrative Practices, Poetic Devices, Visual Signs and the Aesthetics of the Common Law Mind 27
6. Bare Law between Two Lives: José Saramago and Cornelia Vismann on Naming, Filing and Cancelling 37
7. Liminal Tensions in Public to Private Conceptions of Justice: Nussbaum, Woolf and the Struggle for Identity 53
8. “Under the Force of the Law”: Communal Imagination and the Constitutional Sublime in Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor 73
9. Moll Flanders, Ordinary’s Accounts and Old Bailey Proceedings 95
10. Ariel and Caliban as Law-conscious Servants Longing for Legal Personhood 113
11. Altered Bodies, Fragmented Selves: Reconstructing the Subject in Fay Weldon’s The Cloning of Joanna May 129
12. The Business of Law and Literature: to Compose an Order, to Imagine Man 149
13. Renaissance into Postmodernism: Anticipations of Legal Unrest 177