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Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781613764732
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum AmericaDDC classification:
  • 810.93554
LOC classification:
  • PS217
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Overlapping Spheres of Literature and Criminal Justice -- 1. "The Best Side of a Case of Crime": George Lippard, Walt Whitman, and Antebellum Police Reports -- 2. Race, Vigilantism, and the Diffusion of Civic Authority: Measuring Justice in Novels by George Lippard and Richard Hildreth -- 3. Carceral Conversions: Redemption via Incarceration in Antebellum American Literature -- 4. The Angel in the Penitentiary: Women and Incarceration -- 5. "Branded with Infamy": Discharged Convicts in Antebellum Crime Novels and The House of the Seven Gables -- 6. Voices from Prison: Antebellum Memoirs of Incarceration -- Conclusion: Christian Meadows, Edgar Allan Poe, and the "Magazine Prison-House" -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Overlapping Spheres of Literature and Criminal Justice -- 1. "The Best Side of a Case of Crime": George Lippard, Walt Whitman, and Antebellum Police Reports -- 2. Race, Vigilantism, and the Diffusion of Civic Authority: Measuring Justice in Novels by George Lippard and Richard Hildreth -- 3. Carceral Conversions: Redemption via Incarceration in Antebellum American Literature -- 4. The Angel in the Penitentiary: Women and Incarceration -- 5. "Branded with Infamy": Discharged Convicts in Antebellum Crime Novels and The House of the Seven Gables -- 6. Voices from Prison: Antebellum Memoirs of Incarceration -- Conclusion: Christian Meadows, Edgar Allan Poe, and the "Magazine Prison-House" -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

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