Grossman, Jonathan H.

The art of alibi: English law courts and the novel / Jonathan H. Grossman - Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 - xii, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. NFIC

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-196) and index.

Introduction -- 1. From scaffold to law court, from criminal broadsheet and biography to newspaper and novel -- 2. Caleb williams and the novel's forensic form -- 3. Mary Shelley's legal frankenstein -- 4. Victorian courthouse structures, the Pickwick papers -- 5. Mary Barton's tell-tale evidence -- 6. The Newgate novel and the advent of detective fiction -- Conclusion.

080186755X (hardback : alk. paper)

2001002200


Legal stories, English--History and criticism.
English fiction--History and criticism.
Courts in literature.
Law and literature.
Law in literature.
Literary form.

PR830.L43 / G76 2002

823.009/355

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