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The art of alibi: English law courts and the novel /

(Number (ISBN

080186755X

(Number (ISBN

0801877873

(Number (ISBN

9780801867552

(Number (ISBN

9780801877872

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b732038

Title Proper

The art of alibi: English law courts and the novel /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Jonathan H. Grossman.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Baltimore :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-196) and index.

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

"In The Art of Alibi, Jonathan H. Grossman reconstructs the relation of the novel to nineteenth-century law courts. During the Romantic era, courthouses and trial scenes frequently found their way into the plots of English novels. As Grossman states, "by the Victorian period, theses scenes represented a powerful intersection of narrative form with a complementary and competing structure for storytelling." He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel." "Weaving examinations of novels such as William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Charles Dicknens's The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist, along with a reading of the new Royal Courts of Justice, Grossman charts the exciting changes occurring within the novel, especially crime fiction, that preceded and led to the invention of the detective mystery in the 1840s."--Jacket.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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00014051

Title

Art of alibi: English law courts and the novel.

International Standard Book Number

080186755X

Courts in literature.

English fiction-- History and criticism.

Law and literature.

Law in literature.

Legal stories, English-- History and criticism.

Literary form.

Droit dans la littérature.

Droit et littérature.

Genres littéraires.

Roman anglais-- Histoire et critique.

Roman judiciaire anglais-- Histoire et critique.

Tribunaux dans la littérature.

Courts in literature.

English fiction.

Law and literature.

Law in literature.

Legal stories, English.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Literary form.

LIT-- 004120

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Class number

Book number

Grossman, Jonathan H.

Date of Transaction

20201203163952.0

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[Book]

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