Testimony and advocacy in Victorian law, literature, and theology
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Testimony and advocacy in Victorian law, literature, and theology
（Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture, 27）
Cambridge University Press, 2006, c2000
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"... digitally printed first paperback version 2006"--T.p. verso, "Paperback re-issue"--Backcover. Originally published 2000
Based on the author's dissertation
Bibliography: p. 225-240
Includes index
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内容説明
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.
目次
- 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.
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