Title: Courting Failure
Description: "For the past twenty years, the law and literature movement has been gaining ground. More recently, a feminist perspective has enriched the field. With Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature, Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson adds a compelling voice to the discussion. Courting Failure critically explores the representation of women, fictional and historical, in conflict with the law. Macpherson focuses on the judicial system and the staging of women's guilt, examining both the female suspect and the female victim in a wide variety of media, including novels like Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, theatrical plays, movies such as I Want to Live! and Legally Blonde, and the television series Ally McBeal. In these texts and others, canonical or popular, Macpherson exposes the court as an arena in which women often fail, or succeed only by subverting the system. Combining feminist literary theory with the discourse of the law and literature movement, Courting Failure is a highly readable and analytically rigorous study of justice and gender on the page and screen."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American literature, Canadian literature, Courts in literature, English literature, Feminist literary criticism, History and criticism, Law in literature, Legal films (Drama), Legal status, laws, Legal television programs (Drama), Women, Women in literature, Legal films, Legal television programs, Literatur, Frau, Gesetz, Prozess, Film, English, Languages & Literatures, Literary criticism - general & miscellaneous, 20th century american literature - general & miscellaneous - literary criticism, Gender & the law, Canadian literature - literary criticism, English fiction & prose literature - 20th century - literary critici
Time periods: 20th  century, 20th century