• Introduction
• Margaret Anderson's gospel of beauty meets John Quinn
• Beauty and truth ignored : Quinn's defence of 'Cantleman's spring-mate' and early skirmishes over Ulysses
• The importance of pairing truth with beauty in defending Ulysses
• John Quinn : the advocate as cynic
• Between the trials : Ulysses wanders
• Ernst, Woolsey and the hands: Ulysses unbound
• The impact of the Ulysses decisions
• Postscript : the afterlives.

The publishers of Ulysses by James Joyce were brought to trial and convicted of obscenity in the USA in 1921. The immortal prose, ultimately recognized as the greatest English language novel of the twentieth century, was first published by the pioneering literary magazine The Little Review. Its founder Margaret Anderson along with her publishing partner and lover, Jane Heap, were famously convicted of a crime for their extraordinary contribution to society. From then until its eventual publication in the US in 1934 the book ran the gamut of legal obstruction. The Ulysses Trials chronicles that progress and adds not only to the understanding of Joyce but also to the history of the laws of obscenity, censorship and freedom of speech. Its appeal is to Joyceans, all those interested in modernism and to the legal community and students of literature and law. The author is a fluent writer and through his experience as a lawyer he brings a deep understanding and analysis to the course of the court proceedings and the workings and ramifications of each case. He weaves a narrative of the text of Ulysses, the contemporaneous historical context and the motives of the players (John Quinn, Judge Woolsey et al) involved in each step of the trial. His manuscript is unique given his legal perspective on such a milestone legal battle over obscenity laws and hence freedom of speech in the English speaking world in the early twentieth century.Period photographs by Man Ray and others bring this fascinating story to life.
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• 1. The Fugitive Slave Law in Antebellum America: American Culture Transforms Itself--
• 2. Frederick Douglass: Renegade Narrator--
• 3. Harriet Beecher Stowe: Northern Crusader--
• 4. The Next Generation: Radical Emancipation and Antebellum America-- and many more...
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This book shows how the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe incited people to break the Fugitive Slave Law and free black slaves. This book shows how abolitionists used rhetoric and discourse, rather than violence, to change opinions about slavery. Books like "Uncle Tom's Cabin" incite people to take action and they provoke a sense of urgency about the matter. Less than a decade before an impending civil war the United States enacted the Compromise of 1850, which among other things revived the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 in a more aggravated form. The main stipulation of the law was to impose strict monetary and legal penalties against those who aided the escape or impeded the capture of fugitive slaves. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe urged Americans to break the Fugitive Slave Law and free blacks across America. These are the most important texts from the American Antebellum Era that dealt with slavery and emancipation. This book explores the implications of the Fugitive Slave Law and the impact that these two figures had during that time period in American history. The argument is that Douglass and Stowe used language instead of violence to convince Americans to break the law, and that not all Americans agreed with the law.
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• In search of justice and jurisprudence
• Romance and resistance
• The romance of desire and identity
• Privacy, property, and self
• Law and the urbanization of narrative in "postproperty" African American life
• Lynchings and passing
• Resistance in Renascence
• At the end of histories.

This book examines the traditions of American law as it appears in African-American literary life. The study reads the canonical works of 19th and 20th century black literature in the context of its responses to and critiques of American legal history.'.
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• Popular distrust of the courts
• Why the people distrust the courts (A) the courts have usurped the power to declare laws unconstitutional
• Why the people distrust the courts (B) the courts have seized the power to declare some statutes invalid, because unconstitutional, have come to declare other statutes invalid merely because the judges disapprove the policy of such legislation
• Why the people distrust the courts (C) the judges by reading their own views into statutes, to the exclusion of the legislative intent, have made the judiciary, in effect, a lawmaking branch of the government
• Why the people distrust the courts (D) the poor man is not on an equality with the rich one before the courts
• Dangers of popular distrust of courts
• Suggestions concerning reforms in the judiciary.