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Testimony on Trial

Name: Testimony on Trial
Brand: University Of Toronto Press
SKU: 01216310
Price: 53.15 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Brian Artese
ISBN: 9781442643680

Brian Artese

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 01216310

Publishers University Of Toronto Press, December 2011

Who is a more authoritative source of information - the person who experiences it firsthand, or a m... Full description

Libristo code: 01216310

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Who is a more authoritative source of information - the person who experiences it firsthand, or a more 'impartial' authority? In the late nineteenth century, testimony became a common feature of literary works both fact and fiction. But with the rise of new journalism, the power of testimony could be undermined by anonymous, institutional voices - a Victorian subversion which continues to this day. Testimony on Trial examines the conflicts over testimony through the eyes of two of its major combatants, Joseph Conrad and Henry James. Brian Artese finds an overlooked yet direct inspiration for Heart of Darkness in the anti-testimonial scheming of Henry Morton Stanley and the New York Herald. Through new readings of works including Lord Jim and The Portrait of a Lady, Artese demonstrates how the cultural conditions that worked against testimony fed into a nascent conflict about the meaning of modernism itself.