Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-259) and index.; pt.1. Eminent domains: the text of the law and the law of the text . Law's language. Literature under the law -- pt.2. Law and literature in history. Renaissance humanism and the new culture of contract . Crime and punishment in the eighteenth century. The woman question in Victorian England. The common law and the ache of modernism. Rumpole in Africa: law and literature in post-colonial society. Race and representation in contemporary America.;