“Come brother Opie!”

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NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.1525/ncl.2021.76.2.137

J. Bray

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Abstract

Joe Bray, “‘Come brother Opie!’: Amelia Opie and the Courtroom” (pp. 137–162) This essay examines how Amelia Opie’s lifelong fascination with the human drama of the courtroom is reflected in her fiction, specifically in her tales that revolve around trial scenes. Focusing on three examples in particular, “Henry Woodville” (1818), “The Robber” (1806), and “The Mysterious Stranger” (1813), it argues that Opie’s fictional courtrooms encourage an emotional engagement on the part of both characters and narrators, which in turn can be extended to that of the reader. In the case of “The Mysterious Stranger,” a character is on figurative trial throughout, with both narrator and reader frequently in the dark as to her motives. As a result, judgment is both hazardous and uncertain. Through a sympathetic representation of the passions and vicissitudes experienced by all those in the courtroom context, whether real or metaphorical, Opie’s fiction develops a model of readerly participation that adds a new, affective dimension to traditional accounts of the relationship between early-nineteenth-century literature and the law.

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“来吧，奥佩兄弟!”

乔·布雷，“我的兄弟奥皮！”：阿米莉亚·奥皮和法庭”（第137-162页）这篇文章探讨了阿米莉亚·奥皮一生对法庭人类戏剧的迷恋是如何反映在她的小说中的，特别是围绕审判场景的故事中。特别关注三个例子，《亨利·伍德维尔》（1818年）、《强盗》（1806年）和《神秘陌生人》（1813年），它认为奥皮虚构的法庭鼓励了人物和叙述者的情感参与，而这种情感参与反过来又可以扩展到读者。在《神秘陌生人》中，一个角色自始至终都在接受形象化的审判，叙述者和读者都经常对她的动机一无所知。因此，判断既危险又不确定。通过对法庭环境中所有人所经历的激情和沧桑的同情再现，无论是真实的还是隐喻的，奥皮的小说发展了一种现成的参与模式，为19世纪早期文学与法律之间关系的传统描述增加了一个新的情感维度。

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期刊介绍： From Ozymandias to Huckleberry Finn, Nineteenth-Century Literature unites a broad-based group of transatlantic authors and poets, literary characters, and discourses - all discussed with a keen understanding of nineteenth -century literary history and theory. The major journal for publication of new research in its field, Nineteenth-Century Literature features articles that span across disciplines and explore themes in gender, history, military studies, psychology, cultural studies, and urbanism. The journal also reviews annually over 70 volumes of scholarship, criticism, comparative studies, and new editions of nineteenth-century English and American literature.