Against the gallows : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment /

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In Against the Gallows, Paul Christian Jones explores the intriguing cooperation of America's writers - including major figures such as Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and Herman Melville - with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and periodical editors who attempted...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Paul C., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, ©2011.
Temas:
1800-1899
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Social problems in literature.
Capital punishment in literature.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature.
Peine de mort dans la littérature.
Peine de mort > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Capital punishment in literature
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects
Literature and society
Social problems in literature
Doodstraf.
Bellettrie.
Amerikaans.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Haunted by the gallows: Antebellum American literature and capital punishment
  • The politics of poetry: The democratic review and anti-gallows verse in 1840s America
  • The American Newgate novel: Antebellum crime fiction and anti- gallows sympathy
  • Walt Whitman's anti-gallows writing: The appeal to Christian sympathy
  • Women's anti-gallows writing: The sentimental strategy of E.D.E.N. Southworth
  • Herman Melville's Billy Budd: The legacy of antebellum anti-gallows literature.

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