Jonathan H Grossman.

Jonathan H Grossman. The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore, Md: The John Hopkins University Pres 2002 Pp xiv, 202 $3995 ISBN 0-8018-6755-X

The Art of Alibi takes as its bring under rule the relationship of "two central, interlocking sites of nineteenth-century narrative production": the novel and the law courts (p 3) The period spanning the 1790 within the 1840s in particular, Grossman argues, was "uniquely dominated by means of the development of a narrative paradigm oriented to the law courts as a story telling forum" (p 4)

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