Criminal Conversations

Sentimentality And Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories Of Adultery

by Laura Hanft Korobkin
language: english
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, February of 1999 ‧
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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.

Criminal Conversations

Sentimentality And Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories Of Adultery

by Laura Hanft Korobkin

Property Description
ISBN: 9780231105088
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: February of 1999
Language: English
Dimensions: 156 x 236 x 21 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Format: Book
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
EAN: 9780231105088