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020 _a9781609380496 (electronic bk.)
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050 4 _aPS366.S62
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082 0 4 _a810.9/3556
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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.
300 _ax, 230 p.
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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aSocial problems in literature.
650 0 _aCapital punishment in literature.
650 0 _aCapital punishment
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_zUnited States.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
710 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=843303
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