Against the gallows [electronic resource] : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / Paul Christian Jones.

By: Jones, Paul C, 1969-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011Description: x, 230 pISBN: 9781609380496 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Social problems in literature | Capital punishment in literature | Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/3556 LOC classification: PS366.S62 | J66 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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.

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