Literary executions : capital punishment and American culture, 1820-1925 /
Barton, John Cyril,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Capital punishment in literature.
Executions and executioners in literature.
American literature
American literature
Capital punishment
Public opinion
Capital punishment