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Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture, by David Gurnham. London: Routledge, 2014, 148pp (£80.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-0-415-51660-0.

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Crime, Desire and Law's Unconscious: Law, Literature and Culture, by David Gurnham. London: Routledge, 2014, 148pp (£80.00 hardback). ISBN: 978-0-415-51660-0.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hannah Bows*
Affiliation:
Durham University

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