02261nam a22003498a 4500 CR9781139003414 UkCbUP 20180107143414.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110121s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139003414 (ebook) 9781107012974 (hardback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PR888.L39 F48 2013 823/.9109 23 Ferguson, Rex, author. Criminal Law and the Modernist Novel : Experience on Trial / [electronic resource] Rex Ferguson. Criminal Law & the Modernist Novel Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The 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. Law in literature Trials in literature Modernism (Literature) Print version: 9781107012974 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003414 Cambridge Books Online 236639 236639