Law and Literature, SubStance, no. 109, 2006

In publication continuously since 1971, SubStance is a major interdisciplinary journal with a reputation for excellence. It is an international nexus for discourses converging upon literature from a variety of fields, including philosophy, the social science, science, and the arts. Readers have come to expect the unexpected from SubStance, and to experience a sense of participating in the formulation of emerging theories.

Issue 109 (Volume 35, Number 1), 2006

Special Issue : Law and Literature

Guest Editor : Éric Méchoulan

CONTENTS :

Ost, François, 1952-
Lapidus, Roxanne, tr., The Law as Mirrored in Literature

Méchoulan, Eric, Revenge and Poetic Justice in Classical France

De Bolla, Peter, 1957-, The Time of Law: Eighteenth-Century Speculations

Maslan, Susan, 1963-, The Dream of the Feeling Citizen: Law and Emotion in Corneille and Montesquieu

Guyer, Sara Emilie, The Pardon of the Disaster

Rocheville, Sarah.
Lapidus, Roxanne, tr., Discerning Necessity Behind Contingency: The Fiction of L.-R. des Forêts and Robert Musil

Barsky, Robert F., From Discretion to Fictional Law

Special Review :

Méchoulan, Eric.
Lapidus, Roxanne, tr., Sade Before the Law

Other Reviews :

Uricaru, Iona, French Theory: Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Cie et les mutations de la vie intellectuelle aux Etats-Unis (review) 

Greene, Roland Arthur, Death of a Discipline (review)

Hayes, Jarrod, Extreme Beauty: Aesthetics, Politics, Death (review)