An edition of Against the gallows (2011)

Against the gallows

antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment

Against the gallows
Paul C. Jones, Paul C. Jones
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An edition of Against the gallows (2011)

Against the gallows

antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment

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English
Pages
230

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Against the gallows: antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment
2011, University of Iowa Press
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Iowa City

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/3556
Library of Congress
PS366.S62 J66 2011, PS366

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
230

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24839530M
ISBN 10
1609380487, 1609380495
ISBN 13
9781609380489, 9781609380496
LCCN
2011014153
OCLC/WorldCat
713567401

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