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020 _a9781609380496
020 _a1609380495
020 _z9781609380489 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
020 _z1609380487 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)744451866
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_cMdBmJHUP
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050 0 0 _aPS366.S62
_bJ66 2011
082 0 0 _a810.9/3556
_222
100 1 _aJones, Paul C.,
_d1969-
245 1 0 _aAgainst the gallows
_h[electronic resource] :
_bantebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment /
_cPaul Christian Jones.
260 _aIowa City :
_bUniversity of Iowa Press,
_cc2011.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (x, 230 p. )
336 _atext
_btxt
337 _acomputer
_bc
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index.
505 0 _aHaunted 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCapital punishment
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCapital punishment in literature.
650 0 _aSocial problems in literature.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781609380496/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2011 Literature
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2011 Complete
999 _c42229
_d42229