"Theaters of Justice is an important and highly readable in-depth study of post-war legal and literary events that continue to exert their influence on the contemporary understanding of justice and historical truth."--Ulrich Baer, New York University. This book intervenes in th…
What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publi…
"In the wake of World War II, 74 members of the Nazi SS were accused of a war crime - soon to be known as the Malmedy Massacre - in which a large number of American prisoners of war were murdered during the Battle of the Bulge. All of the German defendants were found guilty and …
Gustave Flaubert : Emma Bovary goes to Hollywood -- Charles Baudelaire : florist of evil -- James Joyce : Leopold Bloom's trip to the outhouse -- Radclyffe Hall : the well of prussic acid -- D.H. Lawrence : sexual intercourse begins -- Henry Miller : a gob of spit in the face of…
"In [this book], Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that fi…
"In [this book], Elisabeth Ladenson recounts the most visible of modern obscenity trials involving scandalous books and their authors. What, she asks, do these often-colorful legal histories have to tell us about the works themselves and about a changing cultural climate that fi…
"This is the first modern, book-length study of the case of Thomas Aikenhead, the sometime University of Edinburgh student who in 1697 earned the unfortunate distinction of being the last person executed for blasphemy in Britain." "Taking a micro-historical approach, Michael F. …
"The Moral Witness maps the emergence of a 'witness to genocide' over a century, from its origins in interwar court trials to the Jewish Holocaust survivor and to today's global witness, who represents new obligations to suffering humanity at home and abroad" ...
"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"