The Special Collection brings together a selection of papers from the ‘Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis 1890–1950’ conference held at the University of Sheffield in April 2019, and supported by funding from AHRC. The period of 1890–1950 was a time of literary experiment, of scientific developments and of worldwide conflict. These changes demanded a rethinking not merely of psychological subjectivity, but also of what it meant to be subject to the law and to punishment. The time is right for the re-examination of twentieth-century literature that ‘Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis’ attempts. This is shown through a recent run of influential interdisciplinary publications. For example, Anne C. Dailey’s Law and the Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective (2017) has already been identified by reviewers as a watershed moment, as Dailey’s book explores the missed opportunities that twentieth-century culture offered for law and psychoanalysis to be more fully integrated and considers how the relationship might be corrected in the future. This Special Collection chimes with and develops Dailey’s work in a literary direction, as well as engaging in dialogue with other recent, excellent work being done by law and literature scholars, such as Peggy Kamuf’s Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty (2018) or Robert Spoo’s Modernism and the Law (2018). It addresses topics and contexts including developments in Freudian psychoanalysis; the founding of criminology; landmark modernist publications; and the ‘Golden Age’ of detective fiction.
This Special Collection is guest edited by Dr Katherine Ebury (University of Sheffield, UK) and Dr Samraghni Bonnerjee (University of Sheffield, UK).
Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis
The Criminal Type in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain: Hamilton, Gorse and Heath
Victoria Stewart
2019-07-26 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 49
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The Insanity Plea in The Butcher’s Wife
Lung-Lung Hu
2019-08-26 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 51
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Race, Racialisation and ‘Colonial Common Sense’ in Capital Cases of Men of Colour in England and Wales, 1919–1957
Lizzie Seal and Alexa Neale
2019-10-04 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 64
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Nineteenth-Century Law, Literature and Opium
Chris Dent
2019-11-25 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2019 • 67
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Bureaucracy and Desire: Franz Kafka’s Accident Report
Ioanna Kostopoulou
2020-03-06 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 5
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The Transference and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
Michael Mayo
2020-03-06 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 6
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The ‘Reasonable Man’ in Colonial Nigeria
Katherine Isobel Baxter
2020-03-06 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 7
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Where Do I Put It? James Joyce’s Buck Mulligan, Bisexuality, and Contemporary Legislative Practice
Christopher James Wells
2020-04-13 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 9
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Justice Denied: Literary, Legal and Psychoanalytic Denial in the Age of Modernism
Vicky Sparrow
2020-05-04 Volume 6 • Issue 1 • 2020 • 14
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Special Collections
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Humour as a Human Right
Cultural Heritage Data for Research: Opening Museum Collections, Project Data and Digital Images for Research, Query and Discovery
Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera and Modern Literary Production
Caliban's Mirror: Reflections of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde
Cultural Representations of Machine Vision
The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past
Medieval Minds and Matter
Representing the Medieval in Popular Culture: Remembering the Angevins
The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty
Production Archives 03: Archival Practices
Production Archives 02: Production Contexts
Production Archives 01: Puppets for Action
Representing Classical Music in the Twenty-First Century
The Pathological Body: European Literary and Cultural Perspectives in the Age of Modern Medicine
Binary Modernisms: Re/Appropriations of Modernist Art in the Digital Age
Local and Universal in Irish Literature and Culture
Reading in Ruins: Exploring Posthumanist Narrative Studies
The Language of Perspective
Nancy Astor, Public Women and Gendered Political Culture in Interwar Britain
The Working-Class Avant-Garde
Colonialities in Dispute: Discourses on Colonialism and Race in the Spanish State
Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers and Intellectuals on Britain and Europe, 1918–2018
Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis
Muslims in the Media
Encounters between Asian and Western Art in the 20th and 21st centuries: a liberating influence for Asia?
Waste: Disposability, Decay, and Depletion
Pride Revisited: Cinema, Activism and Re-Activation
New Approaches to Late Medieval Court Records
Utopian Art and Literature from Modern India
Right-Wing Populism and Mediated Activism: Creative Responses and Counter-Narratives
Representing Climate: Local to Global
Cultivating Spheres: Agriculture, Technical Communication, and the Publics
Freedom After Neoliberalism
The Medieval Brain
Remaking Collections
New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies
Imaginaries of the Future 01: Bodies and Media
Imaginaries of the Future 02: Politics, Poetics, Place
Imaginaries of the Future 03: Utopia at the Border
Postcolonial Perspectives in Game Studies
Station Eleven and Twenty-First-Century Writing
#Agreement20
What’s Left? Marxism, Literature and Culture in the 21st Century
New Voices in Jewish-American Literature
Authors, Narratives, and Audiences in Medieval Saints’ Lives
From TV To Film
American Literature & the Transnational Marketplace
Mnemosyne
Healing Gods, Heroes and Rituals in the Graeco-Roman World
The Abolition of the University