Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology
This original and wide-ranging study shows how changing attitudes to evidence, trial and revelation in law and theology had a profound impact on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Jan-Melissa Schramm, who is both a lawyer and a literary critic, argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy that both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their story-telling counterparts of the criminal Bar, and traces the ongoing debate over rules of evidence, eye-witness testimony and codes of ethical conduct that helped shape Victorian realism as a narrative form.
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Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology
This original and wide-ranging study shows how changing attitudes to evidence, trial and revelation in law and theology had a profound impact on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Jan-Melissa Schramm, who is both a lawyer and a literary critic, argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy that both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their story-telling counterparts of the criminal Bar, and traces the ongoing debate over rules of evidence, eye-witness testimony and codes of ethical conduct that helped shape Victorian realism as a narrative form.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521771238 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 04/20/2000 |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture , #27 |
| Pages: | 264 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.34(w) x 9.33(h) x 0.83(d) |
| Lexile: | 1720L (what's this?) |
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