Legal And Literary Discourse On The Jury In The Victorian Period
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Legal And Literary Discourse On The Jury In The Victorian Period
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Author : Kathleen Adelaide Shapley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Legal And Literary Discourse On The Jury In The Victorian Period written by Kathleen Adelaide Shapley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
This dissertation critically examines representations of the jury in Victorian novels. I argue that studying the jury, as a concept and in practice, offers a unique window to both the social and literary vision of Victorian novelists. The second half of the nineteenth century saw a decline in the use and cultural perception of the jury, and the controversy surrounding the jury's competency to administer justice implicated broad social questions of education and class that shaped the formation of British identity. The Victorian debate over the future of the jury was a public conversation occurring in legal treatises, the press, and in literature. By engaging in the debate over the future of the institution of the jury, Victorian novelists forge their own "juryman's guidebook" to educate the readers, the potential jurors of England. In addition to social questions, I examine how the novel uses features of the jury--the jury's role as a "finder of fact" and the jury's narrative silence--as narrative techniques. Novelists explore the jury's role as a "finder of fact" while negotiating their own role as "finder of fact" by balancing legal realism with legal imagination in fictional legal narratives. Additionally, examining the jury's narrative silence is essential to understanding each author's legal imagination. By analyzing the narrative techniques and descriptive strategies surrounding the jury in the works of Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, M.E. Braddon and Henry Rider Haggard, this project demonstrates how the Victorian cultural anxiety over the future of the jury is captured in literature across genres. The responses of these authors to the jury debate range from ambivalence to concrete visions for legal reform; however, each of these authors, through serious engagement with a legal controversy, writes the law.
Judgment In The Victorian Age
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Author : James Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-09
Judgment In The Victorian Age written by James Gregory and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with History categories.
This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields, including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature. It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.
Testimony And Advocacy In Victorian Law Literature And Theology
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Author : Jan-Melissa Schramm
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-04-20
Testimony And Advocacy In Victorian Law Literature And Theology written by Jan-Melissa Schramm and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-20 with History categories.
The eighteenth-century model of the criminal trial - with its insistence that the defendant and the facts of a case could 'speak for themselves' - was abandoned in 1836, when legislation enabled barristers to address the jury on behalf of prisoners charged with felony. Increasingly, professional acts of interpretation were seen as necessary to achieve a just verdict, thereby silencing the prisoner and affecting the testimony given by eye witnesses at criminal trials. Jan-Melissa Schramm examines the profound impact of the changing nature of evidence in law and theology on literary narrative in the nineteenth century. Already a locus of theological conflict, the idea of testimony became a fiercely contested motif of Victorian debate about the ethics of literary and legal representation. She argues that authors of fiction created a style of literary advocacy which both imitated, and reacted against, the example of their storytelling counterparts at the Bar.
Common Precedents
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Author : Ayelet Ben-Yishai
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-04-25
Common Precedents written by Ayelet Ben-Yishai and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with History categories.
Common Precedents maintains that precedent constitutes a sophisticated and powerful mechanism for managing social and cultural change. Reading major novels by George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Wilkie Collins, this analysis of law and literature shows that precedential reasoning enjoyed widespread cultural significance in the nineteenth-century as a means of preserving a sense of common history, values, and interests in the face of a new heterogeneous society. An in-depth analysis of Victorian law reports argues that precedential reasoning enables the recognition of the new and its assimilation as part of a continuous past. The binding force of precedent, which ties judges to decisions made by their predecessors, also functions as the binding element of an always shifting commonality, pulling it together in the face of rupture and dispersion. By appearing to bring the past seamlessly into the present, the form of legal precedent became material. It was vital to the preservation of a sense of commonality and continuity crucial to the common law and Victorian legal culture. But the impact of precedent extended beyond legal practices and institutions to the culture at large, and especially to its fiction. Ben-Yishai's monograph argues that understanding the structure of precedent also explains fictional form: how fictionality works, its epistemology, and the ways in which its commonalities are socially constructed, maintained, and reified. Common Precedents thus presents a cultural history of the forms of precedent and an intricate study of the formation of social convention.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Victorian Novel
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Author : Lisa Rodensky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-11
The Oxford Handbook Of The Victorian Novel written by Lisa Rodensky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-11 with History categories.
The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel contributes substantially to a thriving scholarly field by offering new approaches to familiar topics as well as essays on topics often overlooked.
The Victorian Novel
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Author : Francis O'Gorman
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
The Victorian Novel written by Francis O'Gorman and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
This guide steers students through significant critical responses to the Victorian novel from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day.
The Royal Throne Of Mercy And British Culture In The Victorian Age
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Author : James Gregory
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-01
The Royal Throne Of Mercy And British Culture In The Victorian Age written by James Gregory and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-01 with History categories.
In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.
A Cultural History Of Law In The Age Of Reform
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Author : Ian Ward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-03-11
A Cultural History Of Law In The Age Of Reform written by Ian Ward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-11 with History categories.
The Age of Reform – the hundred years from 1820 to 1920 - has become synonymous with innovation and change but this period was also in many ways a deeply conservative and cautious one. With reform came reaction and revolution and this was as true of the law as it was of literature, art and technology. The age of Great Exhibitions and Great Reform Acts was also the age of newly systemized police forces, courts and prisons. A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform presents an overview of the period with a focus on human stories located in the crush between legal formality and social reform: the newly uniformed police, criminal mugshots, judge and jury, the shame of child labor, and the need for neighborliness in the crowded urban and increasingly industrial landscapes of Europe and the United States. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Age of Reform presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.
A New Companion To Victorian Literature And Culture
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Author : Herbert F. Tucker
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-05-05
A New Companion To Victorian Literature And Culture written by Herbert F. Tucker and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
A NEW COMPANION TO VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE The Victorian period was a time of rapid cultural change, which resulted in a huge and varied literary output. A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture offers experienced guidance to the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its social and historical context. This revised and expanded edition comprises contributions from over 30 leading scholars who, approaching the Victorian epoch from different positions and traditions, delve into the unruly complexities of the Victorian imagination. Divided into five parts, this new Companion surveys seven decades of history before examining the key phases in a Victorian life, the leading professions and walks of life, the major literary genres, the way Victorians defined their persons, homes, and national identity, and how recent “neo-Victorian” developments in contemporary culture reconfigure the sense we make of the past today. Important topics such as sexuality, denominational faith, social class, and global empire inform each chapter’s approach. Each chapter provides a comprehensive bibliography of established and emerging scholarship.
Social Identity And Literary Form In The Victorian Novel
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Author : Jill Franks
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2022-07-29
Social Identity And Literary Form In The Victorian Novel written by Jill Franks and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-29 with History categories.
Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. Meanwhile, bias against nonwhite peoples was worsening. The British used scientific racism to justify their relentless expansion in Africa and Asia. Viewing Victorian literature through the lens of these social changes gives the modern reader a fresh way to interpret the novels and to appreciate their relevance to contemporary issues. Nineteenth-century novelists deployed realism, satire, and the bildungsroman to resist or support leading ideologies of their time, including the separate spheres doctrine and British supremacism. Each chapter is an elaboration of the author's university lectures about Victorian classics. The tone is scholarly yet conversational, directed to the undergraduate student as well as the general reader or Victoriaphile. The text presents concepts in interdisciplinary cultural studies, discusses the uses of genre for rhetorical and social purposes, and exposes paradoxes of the era. The coherent style, abundant examples, discussion questions, and literary glossary make this book a valuable supplement for readers of the Victorian novel.