Rhetoric and Evidence : : Legal Conflict and Literary Representation in U.S. American Culture / / Peter Schneck.
The book traces the changing relation and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, using examples from the 18th to the 20th century (including novels by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee, and William Gaddis). Since the early American republic, the...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Law & Literature ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (291 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. Law, Literature, and the Predicament of Representation
- Chapter 2. Legitimate Fictions: Rhetoric and Evidence in the Law-and-Literature Movement
- Chapter 3 Wieland ’s Testimony: Charles Brockden Brown and the Rhetoric of Evidence
- Chapter 4. The Judge and the Code: James Fenimore Cooper and the Common Law of Literature
- Chapter 5. Evidence and Identification: The Case(s) of To Kill a Mockingbird
- Chapter 6. Dissenting Opinions: William Gaddis, Alan Dershowitz, and the Spectacles of Media Justice
- Bibliography