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

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"[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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Main Author: Canuel, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Strafe > Motiv
Literatur
Romantik
Romanticism.
Punishment in literature.
Literature and society.
Justice in literature.
English literature.
Death in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Mort dans la litterature.
Justice dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Englisch.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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