ENG 3850
Law and Literature · 3 credits · Spring 2027
Requirements
Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/CMP/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.
About this course
This course explores law in literature and law as literature. Themes of justice and bias and the limits of the law will be investigated in a range of literary texts, from Shakespeare to Melville, Wollstonecraft to Morrison, Coetzee, and Danticat. In addition, writings by Supreme Court Justices, trial transcripts, newspaper reports, prison letters, and documentaries will be read using the methods of literary interpretation and analysis.
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