Testimony and Advocacy in Victorian Law, Literature, and Theology

by Jan-Melissa Schramm

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521026350
• ISBN13: 9780521026352
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"