Literary executions : capital punishment and American culture, 1820-1925 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Barton, John Cyril (Author)
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Capital punishment in literature. Executions and executioners in literature. American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Capital punishment > United States > Public opinion. Public opinion > United States. Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

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.