Criminal Conversations - Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery

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Summary

What kinds of stories win cases, and why? Drawing on trial transcripts and appellate court opinions in civil adultery cases, and on literary examples from Mark Twain, E.D.E.N Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, Laura Korobkin sheds new light on the intersections of gender, genre, law and story.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Korobkin, Laura Hanft Korobkin
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.1999
• EAN: 9780231105095
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10509-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Social Foundations of Aestheti; The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S.; The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms; The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law