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TESTIMONY AND ADVOCACY IN VICTORIAN LAW, LITERATURE, AND THEOLOGY
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| By: |
Jan-Melissa Schramm, Gillian Beer |
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Paperback |
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£37.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521026350 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521026352 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 2006 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature & Culture No. 27 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
Examines how the changing role of evidence in law and theology shaped nineteenth-century literary narrative. |
| Synopsis: |
The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could 'speak for themselves' - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled barristers to address the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with felony. Increasingly, professional acts of interpretation were seen as necessary to achieve a just verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by eye witnesses at criminal trials. 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 storytelling counterparts at the Bar. |
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1 b/w illus. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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Returnable |
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