Rhetoric and evidence : legal conflict and literary representation in U.S. American culture /

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The book follows the changing relationship and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, by discussing exemplary novels by Charles B. Brown, J. Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee, and William Gaddis. Since the early American republic, the critical representation of legal matters...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schneck, Peter, 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, 2011.
Colección:Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; v. 1.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Law in literature.
Law and literature > United States > History.
Law in mass media.
Droit dans la littérature.
Droit et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Droit dans les médias.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Law and literature
Law in literature
Law in mass media
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Law, literature, and the predicament of representation
  • Legitimate fictions: rhetoric and evidence in the law-and-literature movement
  • Wieland's testimony: Charles Brockden Brown and the rhetoric of evidence
  • The judge and the code: James Fenimore Cooper and the common law of literature
  • Evidence and identification: the case(s) of To kill a mockingbird
  • Dissenting opinions: William Gaddis, Alan Dershowitz and the spectacles of media justice.

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