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Testimony and advocacy in Victorian law, literature, and theology / Jan-Melissa Schramm.

Title
Testimony and advocacy in Victorian law, literature, and theology / Jan-Melissa Schramm.
Author
Schramm, Jan-Melissa.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Description
xvi, 244 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"Jan-Melissa Schramm examines the profound impact of the changing nature of evidence in law and theology on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Already a locus of theological conflict, the idea of testimony became a fiercely contested motif of Victorian debate about the ethics of literary and legal representation. She argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy which both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their story-telling counterparts at the Bar."--Jacket.
Series Statement
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 27
Uniform Title
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 27.
Subject
  • English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Law and literature
  • English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Evidence, Criminal, in literature
  • Witnesses in literature
  • Theology in literature
  • Trials in literature
  • Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century
  • Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 18th century
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
Note
  • Based on the author's dissertation.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : justice and the impulse to narrate -- 1. Eye-witness testimony and the construction of narrative -- 2. The origins of the novel and the genesis of the law of evidence -- 3. Criminal advocacy and Victorian realism -- 4. The martyr as witness : inspiration and the appeal to the intuition -- Conclusion.
ISBN
0521771234 (hardback)
LCCN
^^^99037798^
OCLC
41940118
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library