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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Introduction
Fables of the Law, a Literary Perspective
Fabulous Law: Legal Fables
Part I: Fabulising Law
The Wondrous (Baroque) Gender Revolution, or the Rise and Fall of the Empire of Fairies
The Haunting Memory of Law: Mystic Fables, Uncanny Presences and Normative Spectrality
Political Sublime: Heterodoxy and Jurisdiction at the Origin of Modernity
Mystical Bodies and Bodies of Law: On Juridical Theology and the (Re)Foundations of the West
Part II: Contemporary Fables
Narrators of Fables or Framers of the Constitution? The Acallam na Senórach Beyond Time, Place, and Law
Playing with Conventions and Traditions: The Modern Legal Fairy Tale
The Good Old Rule, the Catspaw and a Two-Headed Baby
Ethics and Law at Play on the Football Pitch
Earth Jurisprudence and the Myth of Gaia
Part III: Fables of Family
Archetypes and Family Models
Divorce and the Failure of Law in Dickens’s Hard Times
Bluebeard and the Polygamous Family
Part IV: Law, Myth and Magic
Fables of the Holocaust: Hansel and Gretel
Let the Right Law In: True Blood, the Twilight Saga and The Passage as Lex Vampirica
Tales of Terror: The Pillowman and the Violence of the Virtual
The Fable of the Bees in Contemporary Penal Law
Summons, Prophecies, Possession and Madness: Intersections of Law and Magic in Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
An Invented Executive: The Ministry of Magic in Harry Potter
Law and Magic: King Arthur and the Making of a Myth
Contributors
Subject index
Endnotes
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