Literary Executions : Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925

Literary Executions Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925

"In Literary Executions, John Barton analyzes nineteenth-century representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States. The author creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. Novels, short stories, poems, and creative...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barton, John Cyril (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press 2014.
Materias:
Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects > United States > History.
Public opinion > United States.
Capital punishment > United States > Public opinion.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Executions and executioners in literature.
Capital punishment in literature.
Electronic books.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423015706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: literary executions
  • Anti-gallows activism in antebellum American law & literature
  • Simms, Child, & the aesthetics of crime and punishment
  • Literary executions in popular antebellum fiction
  • Hawthorne & the evidentiary value of literature
  • Melville, Mackenzie & the Somers affair
  • An American travesty: capital punishment & the criminal justice system in Dreiser's An American tragedy
  • Epilogue: the death penalty in literature.

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