Author Description

This volume takes issue with such certainties as the facts of law, drawing its inspiration from a diverse range of legal stories, and from famous engagements between the law and literature. Contributors look at a wide selection of material: the work of Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Salman Rushdie; the mysteries of modern detective fiction; witch hunts and The Crucible; the case of Oscar Wilde; and myths of the Father, the Constitution and the Nation.