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Staging the Trials of Modernism
Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness
Dale Barleben (Author)
9781487501075
Hardback, published 10 February 2017
184 pages
22.9 x 16.5 x 1.3 cm, 0.42 kg
In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature, cultural studies, and the law through detailed analyses of select British modern writers including Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, and James Joyce. By tracing the relationships between the literature, authors, media, and judicial procedure of the time, Barleben illuminates the somewhat macabre element of modern British trial process, which still enacts and re-enacts itself throughout contemporary judicial systems of the British Commonwealth. Using little seen legal documents, like Ford's contempt trial decision, Staging the Trials of Modernism uncovers the conversations between the interior style of British Modern authors and the ways in which law began rethinking concepts like intent and the subconscious. Barleben’s fresh insights offer a nuanced look into the ways in which law influences literary production.
Acknowledgements Introduction – Turning and Turning: The Gyres of Modern Law, Culture and the Interiority of the Civil Subject Chapter 1 – Legal Reforms, the Blackmailer’s Charter and Oscar Wilde’s Trials: The Legal Stage of Modernism Chapter 2 – Law’s Empire Writes Back: Legal Positivism and Literary Rejoinder in Wilde and Conrad Chapter 3 – High Modernist Challenges to Legal Authority in Ford and Joyce Chapter 4 – Conclusion: Manufacturing Individual Identity Works Consulted