05665nam 2200769 a 450 991080876330332120230422042836.00-511-04945-50-511-15103-90-511-01006-0(CKB)111087027187800(EBL)144762(OCoLC)179076094(SSID)ssj0000257400(PQKBManifestationID)11207878(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257400(PQKBWorkID)10228044(PQKB)11077950(MiAaPQ)EBC144762(Au-PeEL)EBL144762(CaPaEBR)ebr5005967(EXLCZ)9911108702718780019990625d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTestimony and advocacy in Victorian law, literature, and theology[electronic resource] /Jan-Melissa SchrammCambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press20001 online resource (264 p.)Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;27Based on the author's dissertation.0-521-77123-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-240) and index.""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 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""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.Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;27.English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismLaw and literatureEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEvidence, Criminal, in literatureWitnesses in literatureTheology in literatureTrials in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)English literatureHistory and criticism.Law and literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.Evidence, Criminal, in literature.Witnesses in literature.Theology in literature.Trials in literature.Narration (Rhetoric)820.9/355Schramm Jan-Melissa1677791MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808763303321Testimony and advocacy in Victorian law, literature, and theology4123397UNINA