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

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Main Author: Jones, Paul C., 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.
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245 1 0 |a Against the gallows  |h [electronic resource] :  |b antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment /  |c Paul Christian Jones. 
260 |a Iowa City :  |b University of Iowa Press,  |c c2011. 
300 |a x, 230 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index. 
505 0 |a 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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650 0 |a Literature and society  |z United States  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Social problems in literature. 
650 0 |a Capital punishment in literature. 
650 0 |a Capital punishment  |x Moral and ethical aspects  |z United States. 
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