Elise Wang (A.B. Harvard University, M.St. Oxford University, Ph.D. Princeton University) is an assistant professor of medieval literature at California State University, Fullerton. Before joining the faculty there, she taught for two years in a postdoctoral position at Duke University and for six years as a cofounder of a prison teaching program at Garden State Correctional Facility. She has been the recipient of the Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Fellowship, University Center for Human Values Graduate Prize Fellowship, and a Rhodes Scholarship (Illinois & Merton). Her work has appeared in New Medieval Literatures, Exemplaria, Modern Language Review, TED, and The Daily Show Podcast.

Wang's book serves as a study in how law and literature create and recognize their objects...As Wang shows across her chapters, felony procedure thus serves as a useful lens for analyzing techniques of literary accounting, too, as the same details that serve to corroborate a crime also build narrative richness and realism. These entanglements of fact and argument, evidence and persuasion, have bound law and literature together since the classical era, but find new purchase in Wang's treatment of procedure as a shared archive for both.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Death Investigation: St. Erkenwald's Bright Body 2: The Plea: Placita Corone and Narrative Satisfaction 3: Testimony: The Pistil of Swete Susan and the Oathworthy Witness 4: The Records: Roberd the Robbere and Documentary Technology 5: Standing Mute: Silence and Consent in Law and Literature Epilogue Works Cited Index

Elise Wang (A.B. Harvard University, M.St. Oxford University, Ph.D. Princeton University) is an assistant professor of medieval literature at California State University, Fullerton. Before joining the faculty there, she taught for two years in a postdoctoral position at Duke University and for six years as a cofounder of a prison teaching program at Garden State Correctional Facility. She has been the recipient of the Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Fellowship, University Center for Human Values Graduate Prize Fellowship, and a Rhodes Scholarship (Illinois & Merton). Her work has appeared in New Medieval Literatures, Exemplaria, Modern Language Review, TED, and The Daily Show Podcast.

Wang's book serves as a study in how law and literature create and recognize their objects...As Wang shows across her chapters, felony procedure thus serves as a useful lens for analyzing techniques of literary accounting, too, as the same details that serve to corroborate a crime also build narrative richness and realism. These entanglements of fact and argument, evidence and persuasion, have bound law and literature together since the classical era, but find new purchase in Wang's treatment of procedure as a shared archive for both.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Death Investigation: St. Erkenwald's Bright Body 2: The Plea: Placita Corone and Narrative Satisfaction 3: Testimony: The Pistil of Swete Susan and the Oathworthy Witness 4: The Records: Roberd the Robbere and Documentary Technology 5: Standing Mute: Silence and Consent in Law and Literature Epilogue Works Cited Index

Elise Wang (A.B. Harvard University, M.St. Oxford University, Ph.D. Princeton University) is an assistant professor of medieval literature at California State University, Fullerton. Before joining the faculty there, she taught for two years in a postdoctoral position at Duke University and for six years as a cofounder of a prison teaching program at Garden State Correctional Facility. She has been the recipient of the Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Fellowship, University Center for Human Values Graduate Prize Fellowship, and a Rhodes Scholarship (Illinois & Merton). Her work has appeared in New Medieval Literatures, Exemplaria, Modern Language Review, TED, and The Daily Show Podcast.

Wang's book serves as a study in how law and literature create and recognize their objects...As Wang shows across her chapters, felony procedure thus serves as a useful lens for analyzing techniques of literary accounting, too, as the same details that serve to corroborate a crime also build narrative richness and realism. These entanglements of fact and argument, evidence and persuasion, have bound law and literature together since the classical era, but find new purchase in Wang's treatment of procedure as a shared archive for both.

• Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Death Investigation: St. Erkenwald's Bright Body 2: The Plea: Placita Corone and Narrative Satisfaction 3: Testimony: The Pistil of Swete Susan and the Oathworthy Witness 4: The Records: Roberd the Robbere and Documentary Technology 5: Standing Mute: Silence and Consent in Law and Literature Epilogue Works Cited Index