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Literature and criminal justice in antebellum America / Carl Ostrowski.
Author
Ostrowski, Carl, 1968-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.
Description
1 online resource
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Justice in literature
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American literature
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19th century
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History and criticism
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Law and literature
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 Gables6. 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.
ISBN
9781613764732 ((electronic bk.))
1613764731 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
963624577
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