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

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Prif Awdur: Jones, Paul C., 1969-
Awdur Corfforaethol: ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.