Criminal Conversations Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories of Adultery |
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| Author:
| Korobkin, Laura Hanft |
| Series title: | The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-10509-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.