Secrets and laws : collected essays in law, lives, and literature / Melanie Williams.

By:

Williams, Melanie, 1958-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : UCL Press : Cavendish Pub., 2005Distributor: [distributed by] International Specialized Book ServicesDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 181 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781135428563
1135428565
1843147769
9781843147763
1135428557
9781135428556
1282376616
9781282376618
9786612376610
6612376619

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secrets and lawsDDC classification:

340/.115 22

LOC classification:

K237 .W557 2005eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.

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.