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Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology

Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu, Book 27

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521026350
ISBN13: 9780521026352
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 27 2006
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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