The shadow of death : literature, romanticism, and the subject of punishment / Mark Canuel.

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Canuel, Mark

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text

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online resource

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1400880238
9781400880232

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820.9355409033 22

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PR447 .C35 2007eb

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Cain's Legacy, Nietzsche's Complaint; Chapter 1 "The Horrors of My Dreams"; Chapter 2 Uncertain Providence and Certain Punishment: Hannah More; Chapter 3 "Shuddering o'er the Grave": Wordsworth, Poetry, and the Punishment of Death; Chapter 4 Jane Austen, the Romantic Novel, and the Importance of Being Wrong; Chapter 5 Coleridge, Shelley, and the Poetics of Conscience; Chapter 6 The Two Abolitions; Coda The Culture of the Death Penalty; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

Summary: "[This book] is a timely and ambitious reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. Mark Canuel argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of the earliest assaults on the death penalty and were instrumental in bringing about penal-law reforms. He demonstrates how writers like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, and Jane Austen defined the fundamental contradictions that continue to inform todays debates about capital punishment."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.

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"[This book] is a timely and ambitious reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. Mark Canuel argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of the earliest assaults on the death penalty and were instrumental in bringing about penal-law reforms. He demonstrates how writers like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, and Jane Austen defined the fundamental contradictions that continue to inform todays debates about capital punishment."--Jacket.

In English.

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