Book contents
- History and the Law
- History and the Law
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Beginning: ‘History’, by Stephen Dunn
- 1 Its Ziggy Shape
- 2 Law Troubles
- 3 Letters of the Law
- 4 The Worst of It
- 5 Who Owns Maria
- 6 Sisters in Law
- 7 Hating the Law
- 8 The Kind of Law a Historian Loved
- An Ending: Not a Story
- Bibliography
- Index
An Ending: Not a Story
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 January 2020
- History and the Law
- History and the Law
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Beginning: ‘History’, by Stephen Dunn
- 1 Its Ziggy Shape
- 2 Law Troubles
- 3 Letters of the Law
- 4 The Worst of It
- 5 Who Owns Maria
- 6 Sisters in Law
- 7 Hating the Law
- 8 The Kind of Law a Historian Loved
- An Ending: Not a Story
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This final part of History and the Law is deliberately not labelled a chapter, in order to match ‘A Beginning’, which reproduces Stephen Dunn’s poem ‘History’. There is further reflection on history and the law as narrative, and the practical difficulties facing any historian who attempts to write about the law. The development (and their demise) of legal aid and advice in twentieth-century Britain is related to William Godwin’s writing about law that didn’t happen – wasn’t enacted – in the Commonwealth period. Such narrative difficulties in writing about the law are discussed in reference to the law imaginings of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and George Agamben.
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- History and the LawA Love Story, pp. 218 - 241Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020