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The Shadow of Death : Literature, Romanticism, and the Subject of Punishment /

"[This book] is a timely and ambitious reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. Mark Canuel argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of the earliest assaults on the death penalty and we...

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Autor principal: Canuel, Mark
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Cain's Legacy, Nietzsche's Complaint; Chapter 1 "The Horrors of My Dreams"; Chapter 2 Uncertain Providence and Certain Punishment: Hannah More; Chapter 3 "Shuddering o'er the Grave": Wordsworth, Poetry, and the Punishment of Death; Chapter 4 Jane Austen, the Romantic Novel, and the Importance of Being Wrong; Chapter 5 Coleridge, Shelley, and the Poetics of Conscience; Chapter 6 The Two Abolitions; Coda The Culture of the Death Penalty; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index. 
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