Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521026352)

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.

Author: Jan-Melissa Schramm, Schramm Jan-Melissa
ISBN-10: 0521026350
ISBN-13: 9780521026352
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/27/2006
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d