TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Paul C. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Against the gallows: antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment AV - PS366.S62 J66 2011 U1 - 810.9/3556 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Social problems in literature KW - Capital punishment in literature KW - Capital punishment KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Electronic books 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=843303 ER -