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Literature and criminal justice in antebellum America
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- Creator
- Carl Ostrowski
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- x, 220 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781625342386, 1625342381, 9781625342379, 1625342373, 9781613764732, 1613764731
- OCLC
- ocn963624577, ocn947146608
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : Overlapping spheres of literature and criminal justice -- "The best side of a case of crime" : George Lippard, Walt Whitman, and antebellum police reports -- Race, vigilantism, and the diffusion of civic authority : measuring justice in novels by George Lippard and Richard Hildreth -- Carceral conversions : redemption via incarceration in antebellum American literature -- The angel in the penitentiary : women and incarceration -- "Branded with infamy" : discharged convicts in antebellum crime novels and The House of the Seven Gables -- Voices form prison : antebellum memoirs of incarceration -- Conclusion : Christian Meadows, Adgar Allan Poe, and the "magazine prison-house"