Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology

ISBN-13: 9780521026352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 264 str.

Jan-Melissa Schramm; Gillian Beer

Opis

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.