Literary executions : capital punishment & American culture, 1820-1925 /

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"In Literary Executions, John Barton analyzes nineteenth-century representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States. The author creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. Novels, short stories, poems, and creative...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barton, John Cyril
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1800-1999
Capital punishment in literature.
Executions and executioners in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Capital punishment > United States > Public opinion.
Public opinion > United States.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History.
Peine de mort dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Peine de mort > États-Unis > Opinion publique.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
Peine de mort > Aspect moral > États-Unis > Histoire.
Legal history.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Capital punishment > Public opinion.
Public opinion.
Literatur
Amerikanisches Englisch
Todesstrafe > Motiv
United States.
Verenigde Staten.
Legal history
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: literary executions
  • Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature
  • Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment
  • Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction
  • Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature
  • Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair
  • An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy
  • Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.

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