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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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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index. - Print version record
Jurisprudence, politics, war and the message--messages at war : Auden's "September 1, 1939"Nationhood and identity--RS Thomas : ministering othernessEthics, law and assisted suicide : reclaiming the sanctity of deathChoices and censorship--play of fame and infamy : John van Druten, playwright and lawyerA media hijack--rape, householder defence : legal debates taken hostage by straw dogsPopular media, sex and violence : nature or nurture--savage or citizen? : the crash of the moral mirrorLaws, morals, marriage and cohabitation--virtuous individuals and venal laws : Hardy's eternal message for attitudes to marriage and cohabitationExpert evidence, insanity, nullity--medico-legal stories of female insanity : three nullity suitsRape or seduction? : facts and fictions--law, literature and the "ideal" victim--"is Alec a rapist?" : a reply to Professor John Sutherland.
