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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