Book Review 01

Robert Spoo. Modernism and the Law.

Resumo

The interrelationship between law and literature is becoming obvious in academic studies. Until recently, scholars were concerned with demonstrating that these two areas of study could come together in a joint approach to legal and literary facts. The long journey that this interdisciplinary approach has taken, since the presentation of a list of novels with legal content by John Henry Wigmore (1863-1943), intending to draw the attention of lawyers to reading novels with legal content, has now come to an end. Today, scholars of law and literature are aware of the countless possibilities for study that these areas can provide. [...]