Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology
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 theolo…
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Weitere Autoren: Jan-Melissa, Schramm / Beer, Gillian (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-521-02635-2
- EAN: 9780521026352
- Produktnummer: 2318281
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 411 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 411
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