Literary Executions : Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / / John Cyril Barton |
Autore | Barton John Cyril |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Soggetto topico |
Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States - History
Public opinion - United States Capital punishment - United States - Public opinion American literature - 20th century - History and criticism American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Executions and executioners in literature Capital punishment in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4214-1333-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464274103321 |
Barton John Cyril | ||
Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary Executions : Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 / / John Cyril Barton |
Autore | Barton John Cyril |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (345 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Soggetto topico |
Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States - History
Public opinion - United States Capital punishment - United States - Public opinion American literature - 20th century - History and criticism American literature - 19th century - History and criticism Executions and executioners in literature Capital punishment in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4214-1333-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524891803321 |
Barton John Cyril | ||
Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Literary Executions : Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925 |
Autore | Barton John Cyril |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (344 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Legal history |
Soggetto non controllato | Legal history |
ISBN | 1-4214-2926-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Literary Executions |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910583583303321 |
Barton John Cyril | ||
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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