The Spectacle of Death
Subtitle: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: April 4, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781591024033
Subjects: Capital punishment; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; General; 19th Century American Prose; 20th Century American Prose; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Executions and executioners in literature; USA; History and criticism; American - General; United States; Criminal Law - General; Capital punishment in literature; Popular literature
Description: "In this lucid, gripping, and original examination of public reactions to America's death penalty from colonial days to the present, Kristin Boudreau examines the important role that literary works and popular writers can play in stirring public sentiment against the state in high-profile capital punishment cases."--Jacket.