The Island Metaphor in Literature and Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Island-ness: A ‘New Province’ of Cross-Disciplinary Research 1
4. Part One: Remote Islands as Fictional Landscapes
5. The Island Metaphor in Literature and Law 19
6. Bacon’s New Atlantis and the Crisis of Western Liberalism 31
7. The Unbelievable History of Rose Island, a Micronation 51
8. Part Two: Geographical Imaginaries: Law, Literature and Ecological Crises
9. Humanistic Enchantment: A Durational Reading of Imagined Adaptations 63
10. Aldous Huxley’s Island(ness): Politics and Ecology 77
11. Common Law, Environmental Titles, and Remote Islands in Times of Climate Change 91
12. J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and the Island of the Self 117
13. Part Three: Organising Remoteness: Legal and Institutional Perspectives
14. Islands and Territorial Cooperation in the European Union: Overview and Outlooks 141
15. A Geopolitical Study of the Mediterranean Insularity: Islands as Outposts of the European Union on the Most Intense Fracture Line in the World 153
16. Faraway, so Close: Islands and Constitutional Remoteness in the Nordic Countries 173
17. Part Four: Outlining Insular Identity: Some Case Studies
18. From Islands-of-Islands to the Archipelago: Re-appropriating Relatedness in the Belep Islands (Kanaky-New Caledonia) 187
19. In Memory of Madama Butterfly: An Insular View on an International Convention 207
20. ‘Jolly Good Show. Like The Coral Island’ – Golding’s Lord Of The Flies in the Perspective of Law and Literature 227
21. Contributors 249
22. Index 253