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Criminal Conversations
Laura Hanft Korobkin
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Description for Criminal Conversations
Paperback. What kinds of stories win cases, and why? Drawing on trial transcripts and appellate court opinions in civil adultery cases, and on literary examples from Mark Twain, E.D.E.N Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe and others, Laura Korobkin sheds new light on the intersections of gender, genre, law and story. Series: The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK; HBJK; HBLL; JFSJ1; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
Storytelling is an essential aspect of any legal case. But what kinds of stories win cases, and why? Criminal Conversations explores sentimentality as both a literary genre and a rhetorical strategy in the novels and courtrooms of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. By focusing on "criminal conversation"--the civil tort whereby a cuckold sues his wife's lover to for damages to his property rights from the adultery--Korobkin argues that literary discourse, used in the courtroom, affects the outcomes of legal cases. She shows how lawyers used sentimentality strategically to guide juries in reaching verdicts, and how appellate courts appropriated the ... Read more
Storytelling is an essential aspect of any legal case. But what kinds of stories win cases, and why? Criminal Conversations explores sentimentality as both a literary genre and a rhetorical strategy in the novels and courtrooms of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. By focusing on "criminal conversation"--the civil tort whereby a cuckold sues his wife's lover to for damages to his property rights from the adultery--Korobkin argues that literary discourse, used in the courtroom, affects the outcomes of legal cases. She shows how lawyers used sentimentality strategically to guide juries in reaching verdicts, and how appellate courts appropriated the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms S.
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231105095
SKU
V9780231105095
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About Laura Hanft Korobkin
Laura Hanft Korobkin is assistant professor of English at Boston University.
Reviews for Criminal Conversations
Recommended... for its impressive clarity, incisive analysis, mastery of sources, and timeliness.
E. Nettels, College of William and Mary Choice In the course of this interesting mix of methodologies and historical time periods, Korobkin makes fascinating suggestions about the impacts of women's sentimental (domestic) fiction on popular and legal rhetoric of the time. College English
E. Nettels, College of William and Mary Choice In the course of this interesting mix of methodologies and historical time periods, Korobkin makes fascinating suggestions about the impacts of women's sentimental (domestic) fiction on popular and legal rhetoric of the time. College English