Matthew Anderson and Cathrine Frank publish new articles on law and language

New essays by Matthew Anderson and Cathrine Frank appeared this month in English Language Notes, a special topics journal, whose current issue focuses on "Juris-Dictions," or the interaction between law, language, and space. In "The Space of a Poem: Baudelaire in the Place du Carrousel," Anderson discusses the French poet's trial for censorship alongside the transformation of the Parisian cityscape as two politically motivated events that occasioned Baudelaire's revision of his poem Le Cygne. Frank’s essay, “Privacy, Character, and the Jurisdiction of the Self” re-reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the context of emerging privacy law and traces the way conventionally territorial notions of jurisdiction are re-imagined as metaphysical personal boundaries. Both Anderson and Frank are members of the Department of English and Language Studies.

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