This study examines the development of anti-capital punishment sentiment in antebellum American Literature. Drawing on republican criminal reform theories, prominent American authors and social reformers advocated for the abolition of the gallows, justice, and criminal reform for the diverse citizens of the young republic.
This study examines the development of anti-capital punishment sentiment in antebellum American Literature. Drawing on republican criminal reform theories, prominent American authors and social reformers advocated for the abolition of the gallows, justice, and criminal reform for the diverse citizens of the young republic.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christopher Allan Black is assistant professor of teaching at The University of Memphis.
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Chapter One Republican Legal Discourse and Anti-Gallows Sentiment in the Long Eighteenth Century Chapter Two Incarceration, the Penitentiary, and the Prevention of Recidivism: Republican Justice and Anti-Gallows Reform in Dr. Benjamin Rush's "An Enquiry into the Effects of Public Punishments" (1787), The Account of Murder by Mr. James Yates (1781), and Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland or The Transformation (1798) Chapter Three The Republican Anti Gallows Protest of the Execution of Major John André in the Federalist Dramas of William Dunlap André (1798) and The Glory of Columbia Her Yeomanry (1803) and James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground (1821) Chapter Four Hawthorne's Ecological Spaces of Moral, Spiritual, and Criminal Reform: The Gallows, The Prison, and The Penitentiary in The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The Blithedale Romance (1852) Chapter Five Herman Melville's Republican Anti-Gallows Protest: Billy Budd Sailor and the unfulfilled Criminal Reforms of the Eighteenth-Century American Enlightenment Chapter Six Captain Lynds's Lash: Prison Slavery and the Auburn Silent System in Austin Reed's The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict Chapter Seven Breaking the Backs of Sailors and Slaves: Flogging, Corporal Punishment, and the Lash in the Anti-Gallows Writings of Herman Melville and Frederick Douglass
Chapter One Republican Legal Discourse and Anti-Gallows Sentiment in the Long Eighteenth Century Chapter Two Incarceration, the Penitentiary, and the Prevention of Recidivism: Republican Justice and Anti-Gallows Reform in Dr. Benjamin Rush's "An Enquiry into the Effects of Public Punishments" (1787), The Account of Murder by Mr. James Yates (1781), and Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland or The Transformation (1798) Chapter Three The Republican Anti Gallows Protest of the Execution of Major John André in the Federalist Dramas of William Dunlap André (1798) and The Glory of Columbia Her Yeomanry (1803) and James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground (1821) Chapter Four Hawthorne's Ecological Spaces of Moral, Spiritual, and Criminal Reform: The Gallows, The Prison, and The Penitentiary in The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The Blithedale Romance (1852) Chapter Five Herman Melville's Republican Anti-Gallows Protest: Billy Budd Sailor and the unfulfilled Criminal Reforms of the Eighteenth-Century American Enlightenment Chapter Six Captain Lynds's Lash: Prison Slavery and the Auburn Silent System in Austin Reed's The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict Chapter Seven Breaking the Backs of Sailors and Slaves: Flogging, Corporal Punishment, and the Lash in the Anti-Gallows Writings of Herman Melville and Frederick Douglass
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