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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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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology
• Author: Jan-Melissa Schramm
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780521026352
• ISBN: 0521026350
• ID: 02018638
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 400 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. April 2006

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