Some Books and Articles on Law and Literature

Dunlop, C.R.B., "Debtors and Creditors in Dickens' Fiction," in Michael Timko, Fred Kaplan, and Edward Guiliano, eds., Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction, vol. 19 (New York: AMS Press, 1990) 25.
Dickens’ father was a debtor imprisoned in the Marshalsea prison for nonpayment.

Dunlop, C.R.B., "Literature Studies in Law Schools" (1991), 3 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 63.
Early justification of literature as a legitimate subject of study for law students.

Dunlop, C.R.B., "Samuel Warren: A Victorian Law and Literature Practitioner" (2000), 12 Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 265.
Warren was a moderately successful Victorian barrister, novelist, and politician, whose novels combined lavish praise of English law with sharp criticism of the law’s impact on people. His most popular novels (largely forgotten today) are Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician (1832), and Ten Thousand A-Year (1841).

Posner, Richard A., Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation, Harvard U.P. 1988; rev. ed. 1998.
Justice Posner is fascinated by law and literature but critical of its exponents.

Ward, Ian. Law and literature: possibilities and perspectives, Cambridge U.P., 1995.
An interesting view from England of a largely North American phenomenon.

Weisberg, Richard H., The Failure of the Word, Yale U.P. 1984.
An exciting and controversial look at the lawyer (or lawyer-like) protagonist in 19th and 20th century fiction.

Weisberg, Richard H., Poethics and Other Strategies of Law and Literature, Columbia U.P, 1992.
Weisberg’s second major law and literature text.


Relevant Periodicals

Law and Literature (Berkeley, California) www.ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=lal

Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (New Haven, Connecticut) www.yale.edu/yjlh/