Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment /
Jones, Paul C., 1969-
Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / [electronic resource] : Paul Christian Jones. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011. - x, 230 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781609380496 (electronic bk.)
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Social problems in literature.
Capital punishment in literature.
Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Electronic books.
PS366.S62 / J66 2011
810.9/3556
Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / [electronic resource] : Paul Christian Jones. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011. - x, 230 p.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9781609380496 (electronic bk.)
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Social problems in literature.
Capital punishment in literature.
Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Electronic books.
PS366.S62 / J66 2011
810.9/3556