TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Paul C.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Against the gallows: antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment 
SN  - 9781609380496
AV  - PS366.S62 J66 2011
U1  - 810.9/3556 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Iowa City
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Capital punishment
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Capital punishment in literature
KW  - Social problems in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781609380496/
ER  -