Against the gallows [electronic resource] : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / Paul Christian Jones.
Material type: TextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011.Description: x, 230 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 810.9/3556 22
- PS366.S62 J66 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.