Against the gallows antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment /
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
c2011.
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Sisällysluettelo:
- 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.