TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ostrowski,Carl
TI  - Literature and Criminal Justice in Antebellum America
SN  - 9781613764732
AV  - PS217 
U1  - 810.93554 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Law and literature--United States--History--19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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