Producing Veracity in the Victorian Courtroom
by
Wendie Ellen Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider’s examination...