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capital punishment and American culture, 1820-1925
Capital punishment & American culture, 1820-1925
Introduction: literary executions -- Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature -- Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment -- Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction -- Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature -- Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair -- An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy -- Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-320) and index.
Executions and executioners in literature