| Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology Contributor(s): Schramm, Jan-Melissa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521771234 ISBN-13: 9780521771238 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 99037798 |
| Lexile Measure: 1720 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.32" W x 9.22" (1.08 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |