The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Jonathan H. Grossman. The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. Pp. xiv, 202. $39.95. ISBN 0-8018-6755-X.

The Art of Alibi takes as its subject the relationship of "two central, interlocking sites of nineteenth-century narrative production": the novel and the law courts (p. 3). The period spanning the 1790s through the 1840s in particular, Grossman argues, was "uniquely dominated by the development of a narrative paradigm oriented to the law courts as a story telling forum" (p. 4). ...

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