Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology Paperback / softback
by Jan-Melissa (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge) Schramm
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
Paperback / softback
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The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could 'speak for themselves' - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled barristers to address the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with felony.
Increasingly, professional acts of interpretation were seen as necessary to achieve a just verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by eye witnesses at criminal trials.
Jan-Melissa Schramm examines the profound impact of the changing nature of evidence in law and theology on literary narrative in the nineteenth century.
Already a locus of theological conflict, the idea of testimony became a fiercely contested motif of Victorian debate about the ethics of literary and legal representation.
She argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy which both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their storytelling counterparts at the Bar.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 1 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/04/2006
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- ISBN:9780521026352
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 1 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/04/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521026352
