The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel

Contents

List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 o n e From Scaffold to Law Court, from Criminal Broadsheet and Biography to Newspaper and Novel 7 t w o Caleb Williams and the Novel’s Forensic Form 37 t h r e e Mary Shelley’s Legal Frankenstein 62 f o u r Victorian Courthouse Structures, The Pickwick Papers 83 f i v e Mary Barton’s Telltale Evidence 107 s i x The Newgate Novel and the Advent of Detective Fiction 137 Conclusion 164 Notes 175 Index 197 o c o n t e n t s ] This page intentionally left blank ...