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

Author/creator Jones, Paul C., 1969-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoIowa City : University of Iowa Press,
Descriptionx, 230 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011014153
ISBN9781609380489 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN1609380487 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9781609380496 (e-book)
ISBN1609380495 (e-book)

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