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Against the gallows [electronic resource] : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / Paul Christian Jones.

By:

Jones, Paul C, 1969-

Contributor(s):

ebrary, Inc

Publication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.Description: x, 230 pSubject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

810.9/3556 22

LOC classification:

PS366.S62 J66 2011eb

Online resources:

An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
E-Book	Strathmore University (Main Library) Online Resource		Link to resource	Not for loan

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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