Ostrowski, Carl. <br/><br/>
Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (238 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781613764732 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law and literature--United States--History--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS217 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.93554