02230nam a22003378a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141040002400170050002500194082001800219100002800237245010300265246003900368264005200407300005900459336002600518337002600544338003600570500007300606520103300679650002201712650002501734650002701759776003501786856007101821CR9781139003414UkCbUP20180107143414.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110121s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139003414 (ebook)  z9781107012974 (hardback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aPR888.L39 bF48 201300a823/.91092231 aFerguson, Rex,eauthor.10aCriminal Law and the Modernist Novel :bExperience on Trial / [electronic resource]cRex Ferguson.3 aCriminal Law & the Modernist Novel 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (222 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThe realist novel and the modern criminal trial both came to fruition in the nineteenth century. Each places a premium on the author's or trial lawyer's ability to reconstruct reality, reflecting modernity's preoccupation with firsthand experience as the basis of epistemological authority. But by the early twentieth century experience had, as Walter Benjamin put it, 'fallen in value'. The modernist novel and the criminal trial of the period began taking cues from a kind of nonexperience – one that nullifies identity, subverts repetition and supplants presence with absence. Rex Ferguson examines how such nonexperience colours the overlapping relationship between law and literary modernism. Chapters on E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier and Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time detail the development of a uniquely modern subjectivity, offering new critical insight to scholars and students of twentieth-century literature, cultural studies, and the history of law and philosophy. 0aLaw in literature 0aTrials in literature 0aModernism (Literature)08iPrint version: z978110701297440uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003414zCambridge Books Online