Research Catalog

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