Against the gallows : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jones, Paul C., 1969-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States. Capital punishment in literature. Social problems in literature. Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.