ENGL 4843 - Law, Literature, and Detection

The relationship of law and literature in a variety of forms: law as literature, law in literature, trials as dramas, detection and surveillance, espionage and terrorism, and the legal, ethical, and political ramifications of the law. Readings from Conan Doyle, Melville, Galsworthy, Thoreau, Plato, Poe, and others.