Shadow of death
Subtitle: literature, romanticism, and the subject of punishment
By: Mark Canuel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780691171210
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: Justice in literature; English literature; Punishment in literature; Literature and society; History and criticism; Romanticism; Death in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction Cain's Legacy, Nietzsche's Complaint; title: Chapter 1 "The Horrors of My Dreams"; title: Chapter 2 Uncertain Providence and Certain Punishment: Hannah More; title: Chapter 3 "Shuddering o'er the Grave": Wordsworth, Poetry, and the Punishment of Death; title: Chapter 4 Jane Austen, the Romantic Novel, and the Importance of Being Wrong; title: Chapter 5 Coleridge, Shelley, and the Poetics of Conscience; title: Chapter 6 The Two Abolitions; title: Coda The Culture of the Death Penalty.