... Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1981 . Jones , Howard Mumford . The Pursuit of Happiness . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1953 . Kafka , Franz . The Trial . Trans. Breon Mitchell. New York: Schocken, 1998 . Kant , Immanuel . Critique...

...C.F.S. Creasy The infamous fiacre passage of Flaubert's Madame Bovary , though suppressed by the editors of the Revue de Paris in the initial publication, nevertheless becomes crucial to the 1857 obscenity trial brought against the author and publishers. The absent passage circulates within...

...Erdağ Göknar Turkish novelists have often contested the authoritarian tendencies of the republican state. Orhan Pamuk was charged with insulting Turkishness in 2005, emphasizing a long-standing opposition between author and state as well as between literature and secularism. Though Pamuk's trial...

...-the "elsewheren--of the trial. And so the "alibi's" entry into colloquial English coincided with the rise of the novel-a coincidence that, for Grossman, reflected the shift from spectacle to narrative on both legal and broader cultural levels. Alibi, in Grossman's words, "flagged the courts as places...

... into the twentieth century and consequently became a touchstone for anticolonial politics as well. Gandhi, for instance, was prosecuted under the law in 1922 for the publication of a series of articles in the magazine Young India , memorably dubbing himself “an uncompromising disaffectionist” during his trial...

... as the M'Naghten Rules, the trial record of Ronald True (1922), and the reports of various medical, psychological, and legal commissions. However, in the literary case studies Walton brings to bear on these questions, no character is ever brought to trial. What then is the relevance of the Trial of Lunatics Act...

... trials on the island may be read as a kind of midrash on [the biblical story of the prophet] Jonah (29). Where Watt defined Robinson Grusoe as a classic instance of homo economicus, Fisch takes the novel and author to a deeper level by analyzing the character of Robinson Crusoe as an instance...

... of a criminal justice system which, reformers argued, had itself become criminal in both its domestic and imperial applications. The final decades of the eighteenth century saw the trial of Warren Hastings, Governor General of India, the break- down of the Bloody Code, the development...

... of New York's oldest white families and heir to its shipping and real estate fortunes, married Alice Beatrice Jones, a maid of mixed racial background. By November of that year, Leonard filed suit to annul the marriage, charging that his wife had defrauded him by concealing her mixed race. The trial...

... Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American Authorship . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1998 . That being said, The Oracle and the Curse presents a compelling account of the way in which the crisis over slavery affected the very nature of literature during the lead-up to the Civil War...

.... Linking the Greek peira, or trial, to the pirate, Cohen’s analysis exploits the relations among the experimental trial and error of an emerging field of scientific inquiry, a performance of power, and the ability to control a heterogeneous and often volatile crew (27). Such a tricky balancing act...

... the two side by side allows us to broaden our understanding of complex situations. As Peter Brooks reminds us, “[L]aw is in a very important sense all about competing stories, from those presented at the trial court—elicited from witnesses, rewoven into different plausibilities...

... situation between legal and domestic that draws attention to how questions of political relevance are decided. These decisions crop up throughout Pamela . 19 In the satirical trial scenes, B claims harm to indemnify himself and deflect from or deflate Pamela's plea, maintaining that, as a JP, only...

... the publication of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, just to name a few. Prominent among them at the time, Theodore Dreiser’s best-selling novel An American Tragedy has been long absent from the kind of literary history that would gather...

... “surface” action and psychic “depth”—a difference that has separated “flat” from “round” characters and “serious” from “nonserious” works of fiction for an entire tradition of literary criticism. Ketabgian’s final chapters extend this treatment of individual feeling in overtly indus- trial novels...

... interprets newspaper accounts of trials against homosexuals and alleged homosexual behavior. Continuing lus introduc- tion's argumentative thread about how technological innovation functioned to document and define homosexuality, he asserts that the daily newspapers with their revised style...

... as a som- domite [sic The beginning of Wilde’s undignified end, the trial dramatized the roman à clef’s anarchic social life, notably the fact that its very designation as roman à clef is a matter for readers to determine, even against the author’s protestations. As the image of Wilde in court...

... © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press Contributors nancy ruttenburg is William Robertson Coe Professor of English and American Literature at Stanford University, author of Democratic Personality: Popular Voice and the Trial of American...

... a Trial.” The World’s Famous Orations . Ed. William Jennings Bryan. 10 vols . New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906 . 7 : 138 . Robespierre , Maximilien . “On the Abolition of the Death Penalty.” Rudé 23 –27. Robespierre , Maximilien . “Speech on the Right to Vote.” Rudé 13 –22...

... . The Principles of Psychology . 2 vols. New York: Dover Publications, 1950 . Krook , Dorothea . The Ordeal of Consciousness in Henry James . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1967 . Posnock , Ross . The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity . New York...