LEADER 04498oam 22006734a 450 001 9910464274103321 005 20210915035840.0 010 $a1-4214-1333-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000130036 035 $a(EBL)3318831 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001234905 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11833709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001234905 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11215931 035 $a(PQKB)10823997 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318831 035 $a(OCoLC)881627687 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse32572 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318831 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10883918 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000130036 100 $a20131017d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiterary Executions$eCapital Punishment and American Culture, 1820?1925 /$fJohn Cyril Barton 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4214-1332-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $a"In Literary Executions, John Barton analyzes nineteenth-century representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States. The author creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. Novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction engage with legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which participated in the debate over capital punishment. Barton focuses on several canonical figures--James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser--and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close attention to a host of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers--particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard--whose work helped shape or was in turn shaped by the influential anti-gallows movement. As illustrated in the book's epigraph by Samuel Johnson -- "Depend upon it Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" -- Barton argues that the high stakes of capital punishment dramatize the confrontation between the citizen-subject and sovereign authority. In bringing together the social and the aesthetic, Barton traces the emergence of the modern State's administration of lawful death. The book is intended primarily for literary scholars, but cultural and legal historians will also find value in it, as will anyone interested in the intersections among law, culture, and the humanities"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aPublic opinion$zUnited States 606 $aCapital punishment$zUnited States$xPublic opinion 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExecutions and executioners in literature 606 $aCapital punishment in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCapital punishment$xMoral and ethical aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aPublic opinion 615 0$aCapital punishment$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExecutions and executioners in literature. 615 0$aCapital punishment in literature. 676 $a810.9/3556 700 $aBarton$b John Cyril$0927420 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464274103321 996 $aLiterary executions$92083760 997 $aUNINA