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Rhetoric and evidence : legal conflict and literary representation in U.S. American culture

Title
Rhetoric and evidence : legal conflict and literary representation in U.S. American culture / Peter Schneck.
Author
Schneck, Peter, 1960-
Publication
Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, ©2011.

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Description
290 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Law & literature ; v. 1
Uniform Title
Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; v. 1.
Subject
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Law in literature
  • Law and literature > United States > History
  • Law in mass media
  • American literature
  • Law and literature
  • Rechtsstreit Motiv
  • Literatur
  • Massenkultur
  • Recht
  • Motiv (Literatur)
  • Recht <Motiv>
  • United States
  • USA
  • USA
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Law, literature, and the predicament of representation -- Legitimate fictions: rhetoric and evidence in the law-and-literature movement -- Wieland's testimony: Charles Brockden Brown and the rhetoric of evidence -- The judge and the code: James Fenimore Cooper and the common law of literature -- Evidence and identification: the case(s) of To kill a mockingbird -- Dissenting opinions: William Gaddis, Alan Dershowitz and the spectacles of media justice.
ISBN
  • 9783110253764
  • 3110253763
LCCN
2011015390
OCLC
  • ocn716069608
  • 716069608
  • SCSB-1621449
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library