Rhetoric and evidence
Subtitle: legal conflict and literary representation in U.S. American culture
By: Peter Schneck
Series: Law & literature -- v. 1
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9783110253764
Subjects: History; Law in mass media; Law and literature; History and criticism; American literature; Law in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Law, literature, and the predicament of representation; title: Legitimate fictions: rhetoric and evidence in the law-and-literature movement; title: Wieland's testimony: Charles Brockden Brown and the rhetoric of evidence; title: The judge and the code: James Fenimore Cooper and the common law of literature; title: Evidence and identification: the case(s) of To kill a mockingbird; title: Dissenting opinions: William Gaddis, Alan Dershowitz and the spectacles of media justice.