Against the gallows
Subtitle: antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment
By: Paul Christian Jones
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781609380489; 9781609380496
Subjects: History; Social problems in literature; Capital punishment; Literature and society; Capital punishment in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Haunted by the gallows: Antebellum American literature and capital punishment; title: The politics of poetry: The democratic review and anti-gallows verse in 1840s America; title: The American Newgate novel: Antebellum crime fiction and anti- gallows sympathy; title: Walt Whitman's anti-gallows writing: The appeal to Christian sympathy; title: Women's anti-gallows writing: The sentimental strategy of E. D. E. N. Southworth; title: Herman Melville's Billy Budd: The legacy of antebellum anti-gallows literature.