Literary executions [electronic resource] : capital punishment & American culture, 1820-1925 / John Cyril Barton.
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- 9781421413334
- 1421413337
- Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States -- History
- Public opinion -- United States
- Capital punishment -- United States -- Public opinion
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Executions and executioners in literature
- Capital punishment in literature
- 810.9/3556 23
- PS217.C35 B37 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.
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