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Literary executions [electronic resource] : capital punishment & American culture, 1820-1925 / John Cyril Barton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:
  • 9781421413334
  • 1421413337
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 810.9/3556 23
LOC classification:
  • PS217.C35 B37 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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