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By Rex Ferguson

The realist novel and the trendy felony trial either got here to fruition within the 19th century. each one areas a top rate at the author's or trial lawyer's skill to reconstruct fact, reflecting modernity's preoccupation with firsthand adventure because the foundation of epistemological authority. yet by means of the early 20th century adventure had, as Walter Benjamin placed it, 'fallen in value'. The modernist novel and the felony trial of the interval started taking cues from one of those nonexperience – person who nullifies identification, subverts repetition and supplants presence with absence. Rex Ferguson examines how such nonexperience shades the overlapping courting among legislations and literary modernism. Chapters on E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Ford Madox Ford's the great Soldier and Marcel Proust's looking for misplaced Time aspect the improvement of a uniquely sleek subjectivity, providing new severe perception to students and scholars of twentieth-century literature, cultural experiences, and the background of legislation and philosophy.

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