- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 230 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Against the gallows (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Against the gallows (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2011014153
- OCLC
- ssj0000520798
- Author
Jones, Paul C., 1969-
- Title
Against the gallows [electronic resource] : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / Paul Christian Jones.
- Imprint
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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