Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ostrowski, Carl, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Law and literature.
Justice in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Droit et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Justice dans la litterature.
Law and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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