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Autore |
Schramm Jan-Melissa |
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Titolo |
Testimony and advocacy in Victorian law, literature, and theology [[electronic resource] /] / Jan-Melissa Schramm |
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Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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0-511-04945-5 |
0-511-15103-9 |
0-511-01006-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Collana |
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Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 27 |
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Soggetti |
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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) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's dissertation. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Series-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Definition of legal terms""; ""Introduction: justice and the impulse to narrate""; ""LAW, LITERATURE, AND THE MANIPULATION OF EVIDENCE""; ""FICTION AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LAW AND RELIGION""; ""INFERENCE AND NARRATIVE""; ""CHAPTER 1 Eye-witness testimony and the construction of narrative""; ""EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EVIDENTIARY APOLOGETICS""; ""THE IMPACT OF GERMAN HIGHER CRITICISM ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE EYE-WITNESS"" |
""TOWARDS AN ADVERSARIAL CRIMINAL TRIAL""""EYE-WITNESS TESTIMONY AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE""; ""CHAPTER 2 The |
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origins of the novel and the genesis of the law of evidence""; ""�THE CHAPTER OF EVIDENCE IS THE MAIN BUSINESS�: FIELDING AND THE SUPERIORITY OF SWORN TESTIMONY""; ""�AN HONEST ARTESSNESS IN THE STORY�: CLARISSA AND THE GENDERED COMPETITION FOR CREDIBILITY""; ""�TRUSTING YOUR VINDICATION TO THE PLAUSIBILITY OF YOUR TALE�: CALEB WILLIAMS AND FICTIONS OF SELF-DEFENCE""; ""SINCERITY AND ROLE OF THE OATH IN THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN"" |
""CHAPTER 3 Criminal advocacy and Victorian realism""""THE ENACTMENT OF THE PRISONERS� COUNCEL ACT""; ""DICKENS AND THE BAR""; ""�WORK�UNFIT FOR A GENTLEMAN�: DICKENS, TROLLOPE, AND �MANUMISSION OF MURDERERS�""; ""GEORGE ELIOT AND THE PRESENTATION OF UNSWORN EVIDENCE""; ""DICKENS, STEPHEN, AND THE EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE""; ""REALISM IN THE COURTROOM: TRANSPARENT NARRATION AND THE SUPPRESSION OF EVIDENCE""; ""CHAPTER 4 The martyr as witness: inspirration and the appeal to intuition""; ""�IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU IN THAT HOUR WHAT TO SPEAK�: NEWMAN AND THE TRIALS OF THE FAITHFUL"" |
""�THE LIGHT I SAW WAS THE TRUE LIGHT�: THE CONFESSIONS OF SAVONAROLA""""Conclusion""; ""IS TESTIMONY A SPECIES OF EVIDENCE?""; ""WHY IS THE EVIDENTIARY STATUS OF TESTIMONY IMPORTANT? LAW, LITERATURE, AND THE COMPETITION TO CONTROL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE�""; ""GUILT, INNOCENCE, AND THE 'GOLDEN THREAD� OF THE ENGLISH COMMON LAW""; ""Notes""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""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 INTUITION""""CONCLUSION""; ""Bibliography""; ""PRIMARY SOURCES""; ""Books, artical, and newspappers""; ""Cases""; ""Statutes""; ""SECONDARY SOURCES""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This original and wide-ranging study shows how changing attitudes to evidence, trial and revelation in law and theology had a profound impact on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Jan-Melissa Schramm, who is both a lawyer and a literary critic, argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy that both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their story-telling counterparts of the criminal Bar, and traces the ongoing debate over rules of evidence, eye-witness testimony and codes of ethical conduct that helped shape Victorian realism as a narrative form. |
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