Jones, Paul C.,  1969- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781609380496 (electronic bk.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Social problems in literature.<br/>Capital punishment in literature.<br/>Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS366.S62  / J66 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9/3556