Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology

Examines how the changing role of evidence in law and theology shaped nineteenth-century literary narrative.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: justice and the impulse to narrate; 1. Eye-witness testimony in 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This original study examines how the changing nature of evidence in law and theology shaped literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Jan-Melissa Schramm argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy which both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their storytelling counterparts of the criminal Bar.

Product details

• Authors: Jan-Melissa Schramm
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521771238
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77123-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 584 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries