The art of alibi: English law courts and the novel / Jonathan H. Grossman
By: Grossman, Jonathan H
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Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Description: xii, 202 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 080186755X (hardback : alk. paper).Subject(s): Legal stories, English -- History and criticism | English fiction -- History and criticism | Courts in literature | Law and literature | Law in literature | Literary formDDC classification: 823.009/355
Contents:
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.
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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.
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