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.
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