Against the gallows
Jones, Paul C., 1969-
Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / [electronic resource] : Paul Christian Jones. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (x, 230 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index.
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.
9781609380496 1609380495
Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Capital punishment in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
PS366.S62 / J66 2011
810.9/3556
Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / [electronic resource] : Paul Christian Jones. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (x, 230 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index.
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.
9781609380496 1609380495
Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Capital punishment in literature.
Social problems in literature.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Electronic books.
PS366.S62 / J66 2011
810.9/3556