Testimony and advocacy in Victorian law, literature, and theology /

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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 sty...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schramm, Jan-Melissa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Colección:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 27.
Temas:
1700-1899
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Law and literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Evidence, Criminal, in literature.
Witnesses in literature.
Theology in literature.
Trials in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Droit et littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Preuve (Droit pénal) dans la littérature.
Théologie dans la littérature.
Procès dans la littérature.
Narration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Bewijs (recht)
Getuigenverklaringen.
Bellettrie.
Engeland.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series-title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Definition of legal terms
  • Introduction: justice and the impulse to narrate
  • LAW, LITERATURE, AND THE MANIPULATION OF EVIDENCE
  • FICTION AND THE REPRESENTATION OF LAW AND RELIGION
  • INFERENCE AND NARRATIVE
  • CHAPTER 1 Eye-witness testimony and the construction of narrative
  • EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EVIDENTIARY APOLOGETICS
  • THE IMPACT OF GERMAN HIGHER CRITICISM ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE EYE-WITNESS
  • TOWARDS AN ADVERSARIAL CRIMINAL TRIAL.
  • EYE-WITNESS TESTIMONY AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
  • CHAPTER 2 The origins of the novel and the genesis of the law of evidence
  • 'THE CHAPTER OF EVIDENCE IS THE MAIN BUSINESS': FIELDING AND THE SUPERIORITY OF SWORN TESTIMONY
  • 'AN HONEST ARTESSNESS IN THE STORY': CLARISSA AND THE GENDERED COMPETITION FOR CREDIBILITY
  • 'TRUSTING YOUR VINDICATION TO THE PLAUSIBILITY OF YOUR TALE': CALEB WILLIAMS AND FICTIONS OF SELF-DEFENCE
  • SINCERITY AND ROLE OF THE OATH IN THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN
  • CHAPTER 3 Criminal advocacy and Victorian realism
  • THE ENACTMENT OF THE PRISONERS' COUNCEL ACT.
  • DICKENS AND THE BAR
  • 'WORK UNFIT FOR A GENTLEMAN': DICKENS, TROLLOPE, AND 'MANUMISSION OF MURDERERS'
  • GEORGE ELIOT AND THE PRESENTATION OF UNSWORN EVIDENCE
  • DICKENS, STEPHEN, AND THE EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE
  • REALISM IN THE COURTROOM: TRANSPARENT NARRATION AND THE SUPPRESSION OF EVIDENCE
  • CHAPTER 4 The martyr as witness: inspirration and the appeal to intuition
  • 'IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU IN THAT HOUR WHAT TO SPEAK': NEWMAN AND THE TRIALS OF THE FAITHFUL
  • 'THE LIGHT I SAW WAS THE TRUE LIGHT': THE CONFESSIONS OF SAVONAROLA
  • Conclusion
  • IS TESTIMONY A SPECIES OF EVIDENCE?
  • WHY IS THE EVIDENTIARY STATUS OF TESTIMONY IMPORTANT? LAW, LITERATURE, AND THE COMPETITION TO CONTROL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE
  • GUILT, INNOCENCE, AND THE 'GOLDEN THREAD' OF THE ENGLISH COMMON LAW
  • Notes
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 EYE-WITNESS TESTIMONY AND 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
  • Bibliography
  • PRIMARY SOURCES
  • Books, artical, and newspappers
  • Cases
  • Statutes
  • SECONDARY SOURCES
  • Index.

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