War at a Distance: Court-Martial Narratives in the Eighteenth Century.

This essay discusses the nature of court-martial narratives in eighteenth-century Great Britain. It is said that court-martial narratives offer insights on the geographical realities, literary styles and theoretical practices that showed representations of an empire. One example is the case of Governor Joseph Wall of Goree Island in Africa, who was charged and executed for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong. It was found that the trial was publicized with at least four printed narratives, including a pamphlet titled "Truth is Strange—Stranger than Fiction, which included a parentage and brief summary of his crime and fate, and proceeded with a narrative of the trial. Other court-martial narratives are presented.