Criminal Conversations

Sentimentality And Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories Of Adultery

by Laura Hanft Korobkin
language: english
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, January 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: 9780231105095
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: January of 1999
Language: English
Dimensions: 154 x 228 x 13 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 272
Format: Book
Collection: The Social Foundations Of Aesthetic Forms
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780231105095

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