1 Introduction 1
2 The Irony of Law and Literature 9
The mimetic fallacy 10
The romantic fantasy 17
Letting modernism happen-at last 20
3 1922 25
Modernism and the crisis of modernity 26
The romantic turn 34
Carl Schmitt and the death of the rule of law 41
4 Enter the Kangaroo 52
Origin and reception 52
Introducing Kangaroo 58
5 The Rule of Law and the Legacy of Modernism 68
Troubling the rule of law 69
Two ways to forget history 77
6 How Kangaroo Rewrote Lawrence 90
Bakhtin and Lawrence on the ethics of the novel 92
Text 96
Texture 98
7 Reality and Therapy in the Novel 112
Context: Lawrence's nightmare and the recovery of memory 113 Sub-text: The novel as a therapeutic genre 119
8 Polarity 134
Antecedents 136
Analogues 142
Descendents 147
9 Thirroul of Law 158
Narrativity and performativity 160
Polarity, publicity, and the rule of law 163
A triangulation 168
10 Littoral Readings 178
On the road 178
On the beach 182
Bibliography 187
Index 207