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.
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Complete description
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.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
University of Toronto Press
City:
Toronto
Pages:
208
More info:
height 238 mm
width 159 mm
weight 460 gr
thickness 18 mm
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC23) 823.912
Library of Congress Subject: James, Henry - Criticism and interpretation
Record updated at:
16 May, 2013
time:
20:31
Summary
Testimony on Trial
Introduction1 "Speech Was of No Use": Conrad, a New Journalism, and the Critical Abjection of Testimony2 Theater of Incursion and Unveiling I: Home3 Overhearing Testimony: James in the Shadow of Sentimentalism4 "Abominable Confidence" from The Nigger of the "Narcissus" to Lord Jim: Toward a New Sympathetic Novel5 Theater of Incursion and Unveiling II: EmpireNotesWorks Cited
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