Fatal fictions : crime and investigation in law and literature

345 Pages·2017·2.41 MB·English

by  LaCroix

Fatal Fictions

Fatal Fictions
Crime and Investigation in Law and Literature
Edited by Alison L. LaCroix
Richard H. McAdams
and Martha C. Nussbaum
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Alison L. LaCroix thanks her parents, Terri and David LaCroix.
Richard H. McAdams thanks his parents, Anne Holt McAdams and Rick McAdams.
Martha C. Nussbaum thanks Saul Levmore and Mike Schill, the two deans who have
sponsored our law- literature conferences.

Contents
List of Contributors ix
Introduction xiii
1. On My Careers in Crime 1
Scott Turow
Part I | Criminal Histories
2. Mercy at the Areopagus: A Nietzschean Account of Justice
and Joy in the Eumenides 15
Daniel Telech
3. Suborning Perjury: A Case Study of Narrative Precedent
in Talmudic Law 41
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
4. A Man for All Treasons: Crimes By and Against the Tudor State in
the Novels of Hilary Mantel 65
Alison L. LaCroix
5. Representing Anne Green: Historical and Literary Form and
the Scenes of the Crime in Oxford, 1651 89
Marina Leslie
6. Cold- Blooded and High- Minded Murder: The “Case” of Othello 111
Richard Strier and Richard H. McAdams
7. What’s Love Got to Do with It? Sexual Exploitation in Measure
for Measure 139
Pamela Foa
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Part II | Race and Crime
8. Justice Thomas and Bigger Thomas 159
Justin Driver
9. Reconciliation without Anger: Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country 177
Martha C. Nussbaum
Part III | Responsibility and Violence
10. Kidnap, Credibility, and The Collector 197
Saul Levmore
11. Premeditation and Responsibility in The Stranger 212
Jonathan Masur
12. Walking Away: Lessons from “Omelas” 227
Saira Mohamed and Melissa Murray
13. Before the Law: Imagining Crimes against Trees 241
Mark Payne
Part IV | Suspicion and Investigation
14. Crime Scenes: Fictions of Security in the Antebellum
American Borderlands 259
Caleb Smith
15. Sleuthing toward Bethlehem: Oxford’s Tamar, Jerusalem’s Ohayon,
and Historical Devices in Detective Fiction 275
Steven Wilf
Index 301
Contributors
Justin Driver is the Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law and the Herbert and Marjorie Fried
Research Scholar at the University of Chicago. He received his undergraduate degree from
Brown University, a master’s degree in teaching from Duke University, and a master’s degree
in modern history from Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he studied as a
Marshall Scholar. In 2004 he graduated from Harvard Law School, where he was an articles
editor and book reviews chair of the Harvard Law Review. Driver served as a law clerk to
Judge Merrick B. Garland, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,
and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the
United States. His principal research interests are constitutional law, constitutional theory,
education law, and the intersection of race with legal institutions.
Pamela Foa is a senior fellow at Brown University’s Pembroke Center (since 2013). She received
a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University in 1974 and a JD from the University of
Pittsburgh in 1978, where she also taught philosophy. She served as a clerk to Justice Samuel
Roberts of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and then moved to Chicago, where she was an
associate in a large corporate law firm. From there she practiced law in Philadelphia, first
civil law as a divisional deputy city solicitor and then criminal law as assistant U.S. attorney
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In that capacity she conducted a three- year
investigation for the Inspector General of the Department of Justice that uncovered
criminal and other misconduct within the Administrative Division of DOJ. She also served
in the Eastern District as senior litigation counsel.
Alison L. LaCroix is the Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law and an associate member of
the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Ideological
Origins of American Federalism (Harvard University Press, 2010) and the coeditor, with
Martha C. Nussbaum, of Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel
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