De l’assassinat considéré comme l’un des arts juridiques: Droit et littératures policières (XIXe-XXe siècles) De l’assassinat considéré comme l’un des arts juridiques: Droit et littératures policières (XIXe-XXe siècles) , edited by Pierre Bonin and Laetitia Guerlain, Paris, Mare & Martin, 2021, 238 pp., €29 (pbk), ISBN 978-2849345450

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 All translations are by the reviewer.2 The volume discusses ‘littératures policières’, a designation which includes the detective novel but also the roman noir, hard-boiled detective novel, cosy mystery and thriller. For the sake of brevity, the reviewer uses ‘detective novel’ in a broad sense which includes the various subgenres – all usefully defined in the reviewed book.3 Beacon Press, 1997.4 See Heidi Slettedhal Macpherson, Courting Failure: Women and the Law in Twentieth-Century Literature (University of Akron Press 2008) for precise references.5 Greta Olson, ‘De-Americanizing Law and Literature Narratives: Opening Up the Story’ (2010) 22.2 Law and Literature 338–369. The introduction to the volume does reference works which have appeared in Italian and German languages. Efforts have been made to develop networks which are not rooted in the United States, such as the European Network for Law and Literature, or, in Italy, AIDEL (Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura). ‘Law and Literature’ series now exist in the United Kingdom (Oxford University Press) and Germany (De Gruyter).6 Anne Teissier-Ensminger, La beauté du droit (Descartes 1999); Le droit incarné: huit parcours en jurislittérature (Classiques Garnier 2013); Fabuleuse juridicité : sur la littérarisation des genres juridiques (Classiques Garnier 2015). Her notion of jurisliterature runs through Peter Goodrich’s Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Elgar Publishing 2021).7 See for instance Crystal Parikh (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights and Literature (Cambridge University Press 2019).8 For an overview and new perspectives, see Greta Olson, From Law and Literature to Legality and Affect (Oxford University Press 2022).