TY - JOUR
AU - Stokes, John
AB - Roundtable 8. Louise Jackson, ‘The Child’s Word in Court: Cases of Child Sexual Abuse in London 1870-1914’, Roehampton Conference on Gender and Crime in Britain and Europe, 9. Such as the narrative of ‘the rights of freeborn Englishmen’ to which Georgina Weldon, though a woman, was able to appeal so successfully. John Stokes By insisting that narrative structures are social in origin, City of Dreadful Delight commands the attention of literary critic and cultural historian alike. The notorious ‘linguistic turn’ in the writing of history, much dis- cussed in the Journal of Victorian Culture, was, after all, anticipated long ago by an equally scandalous move within literary criticism. This devel- opment might have been seen as merely tautological (what else is litera- ture but language?) were it not that critics have always wanted to think of writing as if it referred, directly or indirectly, to the pressing realities of morality, of politics, of life itself. Part of the strength of Judith Walkowiu’s approach to narrative is that it redresses the balance by returning both language and literature to their rightful place within the broad category of history rather than by simply letting literature and history remain under the fashionable 
TI - Narratives of the ‘real’
JO - Journal of Victorian Culture
DO - 10.1080/13555509709505956
DA - 1997-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/narratives-of-the-real-sOPbKn0S8O
SP - 310
EP - 316
VL - 2
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -