TY - BOOK AU - Jones,Paul C. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Against the gallows: antebellum American writers and the movement to abolish capital punishment AV - PS366.S62 J66 2011eb U1 - 810.9/3556 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Social problems in literature KW - Capital punishment in literature KW - Capital punishment KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-222) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://ezproxy.taylors.edu.my/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/taylorscollege/Doc?id=10500160 ER -