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Crime and the nation : prison reform and popular fiction in Philadelphia, 1786-1800 / Peter Okun.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okun, Peter, 1951-
- Series:
- American popular history and culture (Routledge (Firm))
- Studies in American popular history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--18th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Crime in literature.
- Literature and society--United States--History--18th century.
- Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Crime.
- History.
- Prisons.
- Literature and society.
- United States.
- Prisons--United States--History--18th century.
- Crime--United States--History--18th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--In literature.
- Prisoners in literature.
- Prisons in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 167 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Summary:
- "Crime and the Nation" explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. It also explores the nature of crime as part of America's national identity, and the origins of the nation's unique and enduring love affair with crime and crime fiction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-161) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415933862
- OCLC:
- 49225544
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