Literature and criminal justice in antebellum America / Carl Ostrowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostrowski, Carl, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Law and literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Justice in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

Summary:

The United States set about defining and reforming its criminal justice institutions during the antebellum years, just as an innovative, expanding print culture afforded authors and publishers unprecedented opportunities to reflect on these important social developments.

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 Gables

6. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-61376-473-1

OCLC:

963624577