TY - CHAP AB - There is a strange English case, one that is also a quintessentially modernist text, which all students of the common law are taught. In this case, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562, the House of Lords reformulated the responsibility owed by one person to another in civil society, (despite its legal importance, it is irreverently known as "the-snailin- the-bottle case"). The case has had a hold on the imagination of lawyers ever since it was heard in 1932; but as to why this case matters so much to lawyers, and why it should also matter to modernists, I need to start by telling a story. Like all good stories, this one starts with a journey-Mrs May Donoghue's tram trip from her tenement in the heart of Glasgow to the Welhneadow Cafe in Paisley. AU - van Rijswijk, HM CY - Newcastle upon Tyne DA - 2010/01/01 ED - First EP - 166 JO - Remaking Literary History PB - Cambridge Scholars Publishing PY - 2010/01/01 SP - 155 TI - Mrs Donoghue and The Law's Strange Neighbour: New Narratives of Modernist Trauma Y1 - 2010/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -