Against the gallows : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / / Paul Christian Jones.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 230 p. |
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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.