Against the Gallows : Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Paul C., 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Capital punishment in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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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