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The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel by Jonathan H. Grossman [Repost]
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The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel by Jonathan H. Grossman
English | January 23, 2002 | ISBN: 080186755X | 216 pages | PDF | 14 MB
English | January 23, 2002 | ISBN: 080186755X | 216 pages | PDF | 14 MB
In The Art of Alibi, Jonathan 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, these 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.