Against the gallows [[electronic resource] ] : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / / Paul Christian Jones |
Autore | Jones Paul C. <1969-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century
Social problems in literature Capital punishment in literature Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-60938-049-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Haunted by the gallows: Antebellum American literature and capital punishment -- The politics of poetry: The democratic review and anti-gallows verse in 1840s America -- The American Newgate novel: Antebellum crime fiction and anti- gallows sympathy -- Walt Whitman's anti-gallows writing: The appeal to Christian sympathy -- Women's anti-gallows writing: The sentimental strategy of E. D. E. N. Southworth -- Herman Melville's Billy Budd: The legacy of antebellum anti-gallows literature. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456685603321 |
Jones Paul C. <1969->
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Against the gallows [[electronic resource] ] : antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment / / Paul Christian Jones |
Autore | Jones Paul C. <1969-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century
Social problems in literature Capital punishment in literature Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects - United States |
ISBN | 1-60938-049-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Haunted by the gallows: Antebellum American literature and capital punishment -- The politics of poetry: The democratic review and anti-gallows verse in 1840s America -- The American Newgate novel: Antebellum crime fiction and anti- gallows sympathy -- Walt Whitman's anti-gallows writing: The appeal to Christian sympathy -- Women's anti-gallows writing: The sentimental strategy of E. D. E. N. Southworth -- Herman Melville's Billy Budd: The legacy of antebellum anti-gallows literature. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781769103321 |
Jones Paul C. <1969->
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2011 | ||
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The Economics of Fantasy : Rape in Twentieth-Century Literature / / Sharon Stockton |
Autore | Stockton Sharon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 235 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Soggetto topico |
Violence in literature
Masculinity in literature Power (Social sciences) in literature English literature - 20th century - History and criticism Rape in literature American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910524680203321 |
Stockton Sharon
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2006 | ||
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Learning to Live with Crime : American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn / / Christopher P. Wilson |
Autore | Wilson Christopher P (Christopher Pierce), <1952-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 302 p. ) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Soggetto topico |
Crime on television
Criminal investigation in literature Crime in literature True crime stories - United States - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8142-7093-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Getting wise(guys) : the witness protection narrative -- The box in the box : putting interrogation in prime time -- The time of the crime : cold case squads and neoconservative social memory -- Risk management : Frank Abagnale Jr. and the shadowing of pleasure -- "Doing time" : keepers, brothers, and the prison expose. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910552773403321 |
Wilson Christopher P (Christopher Pierce), <1952->
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Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2010 | ||
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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-9910464274103321 |
Barton John Cyril
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 | ||
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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
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Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Literature and the environment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by George Hart and Scott Slovic |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HartGeorge Leslie
SlovicScott <1960-> |
Collana | Exploring social issues through literature |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism Environmental protection in literature Environmental policy in literature Ecology in literature Nature in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-40936-0
9786612409363 0-313-06166-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Mary Austin, The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Webb -- Loren Eiseley, The immense journey (1957) / Kathleen Boardman -- Rachel Carson, Silent spring (1962) / Jane Detweiler -- Wallace Stegner, The sound of mountain water (1969) / Michael P. Cohen -- Gary snyder, turtle island (1974) / George Hart -- Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975) / David Fenimore -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454917603321 |
Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004 | ||
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Literature and the environment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by George Hart and Scott Slovic |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HartGeorge Leslie
SlovicScott <1960-> |
Collana | Exploring social issues through literature |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Environmental literature - History and criticism Environmental protection in literature Environmental policy in literature Ecology in literature Nature in literature |
ISBN |
1-282-40936-0
9786612409363 0-313-06166-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Mary Austin, The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Webb -- Loren Eiseley, The immense journey (1957) / Kathleen Boardman -- Rachel Carson, Silent spring (1962) / Jane Detweiler -- Wallace Stegner, The sound of mountain water (1969) / Michael P. Cohen -- Gary snyder, turtle island (1974) / George Hart -- Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975) / David Fenimore -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778527503321 |
Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2004 | ||
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The metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America [[electronic resource] /] / Sandra Baringer |
Autore | Baringer Sandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Collana | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Suspicion in literature Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Narration (Rhetoric) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-05981-8
0-203-50385-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Crucifying the White Man Douglass Durham and the Master Narrative of the Seventies Savage; CHAPTER TWO Lynching the White Woman William Pierce's "Day of the Rope"; CHAPTER THREE Women's Work? Child Sexual Abuse Prosecution in the 1980s; CHAPTER FOUR Motherhood and Treason Pynchon's Vineland and the New Left; CHAPTER FIVE Motherhood and Terror Silko's Almanac of the Dead
CHAPTER SIX Beyond the Foucauldian Complex Inscriptions and Reinscriptions of the Power Paradigm by American Prison WritersEpilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451134303321 |
Baringer Sandra
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New York, : Routledge, 2004 | ||
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The metanarrative of suspicion in late twentieth century America [[electronic resource] /] / Sandra Baringer |
Autore | Baringer Sandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/3556 |
Collana | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism
Suspicion in literature Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century Narration (Rhetoric) |
ISBN |
1-135-87690-8
1-280-05981-8 0-203-50385-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; LITERARY CRITICISM AND CULTURAL THEORY; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Crucifying the White Man Douglass Durham and the Master Narrative of the Seventies Savage; CHAPTER TWO Lynching the White Woman William Pierce's "Day of the Rope"; CHAPTER THREE Women's Work? Child Sexual Abuse Prosecution in the 1980s; CHAPTER FOUR Motherhood and Treason Pynchon's Vineland and the New Left; CHAPTER FIVE Motherhood and Terror Silko's Almanac of the Dead
CHAPTER SIX Beyond the Foucauldian Complex Inscriptions and Reinscriptions of the Power Paradigm by American Prison WritersEpilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784080103321 |
Baringer Sandra
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