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Literature and criminal justice in antebellum America /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Overlapping Spheres of Literature and Criminal Justice; 1. "The Best Side of a Case of Crime": George Lippard, Walt Whitman, and Antebellum Police Reports; 2. Race, Vigilantism, and the Diffusion of Civic Authority: Measuring Justice in Novels by George Lippard and Richard Hildreth; 3. Carceral Conversions: Redemption via Incarceration in Antebellum American Literature; 4. The Angel in the Penitentiary: Women and Incarceration.
- 5. "Branded with Infamy": Discharged Convicts in Antebellum Crime Novels and The House of the Seven Gables6. Voices from Prison: Antebellum Memoirs of Incarceration; Conclusion: Christian Meadows, Edgar Allan Poe, and the "Magazine Prison-House"; Notes; Index; About the Author; Back Cover.