Melissa J Ganz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1648712 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa J Ganz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa J |
| FAMILY NAME | Ganz |
| SIGNATURE | GANZ M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
The law underwent significant changes in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial society. This volume reveals how legal developments of the period shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing. Reading canonical and lesserknown texts from the Restoration to the Romantic era, the chapters explore literary engagements with libel law, plague law,…
Eighteenth‐Century British Law and Literature
This essay offers a survey of scholarship on eighteenth‐century British law and literature, highlighting developments and debates in the field over the past 50 years. The essay begins with a discussion of work on the interplay between the legal and the literary professions, including literary representations of lawyers and legal processes, the uses of narrative and rhetoric in law, and the legal regulation of authorship. The essay then turns to w…
Corporate Persons, Collective Responsibility, and the Literary Imagination
This essay examines the contributions of Lisa Siraganian’s Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (2021) to our understanding of the historical development and philosophical underpinning of United States corporate law as well as to broader studies of law and literature. The first part of the essay considers Siraganian’s analysis of problems related to corporate agency, intention, and responsibility. The second part considers the book’s im…
Criminal Conversations
Journal Article Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery Get access Korobkin Laura Hanft, Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. vii, 247 pp. $49.50 (cloth). $18.50 (paper). Melissa J. Ganz Melissa J. Ganz Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journa…
Criminal Conversations, Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery
Journal Article Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery Get access Korobkin Laura Hanft, Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. vii, 247 pp. $49.50 (cloth). $18.50 (paper). Melissa J. Ganz Melissa J. Ganz Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journa…
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Criminal Conversations, Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery
Journal Article Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery Get access Korobkin Laura Hanft, Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. vii, 247 pp. $49.50 (cloth). $18.50 (paper). Melissa J. Ganz Melissa J. Ganz Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journa…
Criminal Conversations
Journal Article Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery Get access Korobkin Laura Hanft, Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. vii, 247 pp. $49.50 (cloth). $18.50 (paper). Melissa J. Ganz Melissa J. Ganz Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journa…
Corporate Persons, Collective Responsibility, and the Literary Imagination
This essay examines the contributions of Lisa Siraganian’s Modernism and the Meaning of Corporate Persons (2021) to our understanding of the historical development and philosophical underpinning of United States corporate law as well as to broader studies of law and literature. The first part of the essay considers Siraganian’s analysis of problems related to corporate agency, intention, and responsibility. The second part considers the book’s im…
British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
The law underwent significant changes in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial society. This volume reveals how legal developments of the period shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing. Reading canonical and lesserknown texts from the Restoration to the Romantic era, the chapters explore literary engagements with libel law, plague law,…
Eighteenth‐Century British Law and Literature
This essay offers a survey of scholarship on eighteenth‐century British law and literature, highlighting developments and debates in the field over the past 50 years. The essay begins with a discussion of work on the interplay between the legal and the literary professions, including literary representations of lawyers and legal processes, the uses of narrative and rhetoric in law, and the legal regulation of authorship. The essay then turns to w…
Law (4 works) · Law in Society and Culture (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Adultery (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Legal principles and applications (2 works)