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The Art of Alibi
Jonathan H. Grossman
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Description for The Art of Alibi
Hardcover. The author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. 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. Num Pages: 216 pages, 10, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
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. Weaving examinations of novels such as William Godwin's ... Read more
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. Weaving examinations of novels such as William Godwin's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801867552
SKU
V9780801867552
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About Jonathan H. Grossman
Jonathan H. Grossman is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Reviews for The Art of Alibi
Among those texts that attend both to historical environment and formal or generic pressures, Jonathan H. Grossman's The Art of Alibi stands out.
Andrew H. Miller Studies in English Literature 2003 [An] absorbing study of the cultural influence of the law courts on the Victorian novel... Grossman's refusal to simply draw an analogy between trials and novels distinguishes his ... Read more
Andrew H. Miller Studies in English Literature 2003 [An] absorbing study of the cultural influence of the law courts on the Victorian novel... Grossman's refusal to simply draw an analogy between trials and novels distinguishes his ... Read more