TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grossman,Jonathan H.
TI  - The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel
SN  - 9780801877872
AV  - PR830.L43G76 2002 
U1  - 823.009/355 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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