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Paul C. Jones
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antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment

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University of Iowa Press
Language
English
Pages
230

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Subjects
History, Social problems in literature, Capital punishment, Literature and society, Capital punishment in literature, Moral and ethical aspects
Places
United States
Times
19th century

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
230

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

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