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The Art of Alibi : English Law Courts and the Novel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (217 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801877872
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Art of AlibiDDC classification:
  • 823.009/355
LOC classification:
  • PR830.L43G76 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - From Scaffold to Law Court, from Criminal Broadsheet and Biography to Newspaper and Novel -- Chapter 2 - Caleb Williams and the Novel's Forensic Form -- Chapter 3 - Mary Shelley's Legal Frankenstein -- Chapter 4 - Victorian Courthouse Structures, The Pickwick Papers -- Chapter 5 - Mary Barton's Telltale Evidence -- Chapter 6 - The Newgate Novel and the Advent of Detective Fiction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Weaving examinations of novels such as William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Charles Dickens'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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 - From Scaffold to Law Court, from Criminal Broadsheet and Biography to Newspaper and Novel -- Chapter 2 - Caleb Williams and the Novel's Forensic Form -- Chapter 3 - Mary Shelley's Legal Frankenstein -- Chapter 4 - Victorian Courthouse Structures, The Pickwick Papers -- Chapter 5 - Mary Barton's Telltale Evidence -- Chapter 6 - The Newgate Novel and the Advent of Detective Fiction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Weaving examinations of novels such as William Godwin's Caleb Williams, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Charles Dickens'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.

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