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Criminal conversations : sentimentality and nineteenth-century legal stories of adultery

Title: Criminal conversations : sentimentality and nineteenth-century legal stories of adultery / Laura Hanft Korobkin.
Author: Korobkin, Laura Hanft.
Publication: New York : Columbia University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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247 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

The social foundations of aesthetic forms

Uniform Title

Social foundations of aesthetic forms series.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-235) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Introduction and Historical Foundation -- Prologue: Telling Stories in the Courtroom. 1. Criminal Conversation and the Conversational Process of the Law. 2. The Transformative Magic of Legal Fictions: The Suppression of Sex in Early English Civil Adultery Cases -- Pt. II. Theodore Tilton vs. Henry Ward Beecher: Criminal Conversation, 1875 -- Prologue: Crisis of Confidence in the Courtroom. 3. The Maintenance of Mutual Confidence: Sentimental Strategies at the Beecher-Tilton Trial. 4. Silent Woman, Speaking Fiction: The "Ministry of Catherine Gaunt" at the Beecher-Tilton Trial -- Pt. III. Female-Plaintiff Criminal Conversation Cases: Rewriting the Law's Story of Marriage -- Prologue: Revision Through Four Cases. 5. Rethinking the Law's Story of Marriage: The Bonds of Sentiment. 6. Consequences of Change: The Sexually Passive Husband and the Erotically Autonomous Wife.

ISBN

0231105088 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0231105096 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

98003018

OCLC

ocm38504231

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Columbia University Libraries