TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barton,John Cyril
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Literary executions: capital punishment & American culture, 1820-1925 
SN  - 9781421413334
AV  - PS217.C35 B37 2014
U1  - 810.9/3556 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - American literature
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Executions and executioners in literature
KW  - Capital punishment in literature
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421413334/
ER  -