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law and literature  

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  • The field of interdisciplinary study known as “law and literature” brings the two fields of “law” and “literature” (or literary studies) together to engender new scholarly insights. Today, scholars regard law and literature as a discrete academic field, though the degree of convergence among scholarly contributions in terms of broad sources is undercut by the divergence in topics and methods.Some assume that law and literature studies comprise the evaluation of legal themes in classical texts famous for their “legal” content—such as the debates on legal principles found in works by Charles Dickens or Shakespeare. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Literature, Law And]

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