Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment

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Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment

Title:

Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment

Author:

Jones, Paul C., 1969-

Personal Author:

Jones, Paul C., 1969-

Publication Information:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.

Physical Description:

x, 230 p.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.

Social problems in literature.

Capital punishment in literature.

Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Corporate Author:

ProQuest (Firm)

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