Literature and criminal justice in antebellum America / Carl Ostrowski.
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TextPublication details: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 9781613764732
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- Justice in literature
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Law and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Justice dans la littérature
- Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Droit et littérature -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American literature
- Justice in literature
- Law and literature
- United States
- 1800-1899
- 810.9/3554 23
- PS217.L37 O78 2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 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.
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