Experience on Trial / [electronic resource] Ferguson, Rex creator author. text enk 2013 monographic eng

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1 online resource (222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Rex Ferguson. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Law in literature Trials in literature Modernism (Literature) PR888.L39 F48 2013 823/.9109 9781139003414 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003414 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003414 UkCbUP 110121 20180107143414.0 CR9781139003414