LEADER 03053nam 22005655 450 001 9910272353003321 005 20240424225737.0 010 $a9781501726217 010 $a1501726218 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501726217 035 $a(CKB)4340000000258212 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5317518 035 $a(WaSeSS)IndRDA00124671 035 $a(DE-B1597)496603 035 $a(OCoLC)1028942385 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501726217 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89118 035 $a(Perlego)566059 035 $a(oapen)doab89118 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000258212 100 $a20190615d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHomicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860 $eA Study in Social Values /$fDavid Brion Davis 210 $cCornell University Press$d2018 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ1968 215 $a1 online resource (346 pages) 311 08$a9781501726224 311 08$a1501726226 311 08$a9780801490668 311 08$a0801490669 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tPREFACE -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPART ONE. Homicide and the Nature of Man -- $tPART TWO. The A bnormal Heart and Mind -- $tPART THREE. The Fundamental Motive -- $tPART FOUR. Homicide and Society -- $tCONCLUSION -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aHomicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intellectual currents in an attempt to integrate social attitudes toward such diverse subjects as human evil, moral responsibility, criminal insanity, social causes of crime, dueling, lynching, the "unwritten law" of a husband's revenge, and capital punishment. In addition to works of literary distinction by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe, among others, Davis considers a large body of cheap popular fiction generally ignored in previous studies of the literature of this period. This is an engrossing study of fiction as a reflection of and a commentary on social problems and as an influence shaping general beliefs and opinions. 606 $aHomicide in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aHomicide in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.209 700 $aDavis$b David Brion, $0127695 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910272353003321 996 $aHomicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860$92805034 997 $aUNINA