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1 online resource (x, 230 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
℗¡In Against the Gallows, Paul Christian Jones explores the intriguing cooperation of America & rsquo;s writers & mdash;including major figures such as Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and Herman Melville & mdash;with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and periodical editors who attempted to end the practice of capital punishment in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. In an age of passionate reform efforts, the antigallows movement enjoyed broad popularity, waging its campaign in legislatures, pulpits, newspapers, and literary journals.℗¡Although it failed in it. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Social problems in literature.
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Social problems in literature. |
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Capital punishment in literature.
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Capital punishment in literature. |
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Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
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Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Capital punishment. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Paul C., 1969- Against the gallows. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, ©2011 9781609380489 (DLC) 2011014153 (OCoLC)713567401 |
| ISBN |
9781609380496 (electronic book) |
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1609380495 (electronic book) |
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9781609380489 |
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1609380487 |
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