@article{1433815,
      author = {Ebury, Katherine,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1433815},
      title = {Modern literature and the death penalty, 1890-1950 /},
      abstract = {This book examines how the cultural and ethical power of  literature offered early twentieth-century readers  opportunities for thinking through capital punishment in  the UK, Ireland and the US in the period between 1890 and  1950. Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950  therefore considers how connections between high and  popular culture seem particularly inextricable where the  death penalty is at stake. This book will consider a range  of forms, including: short stories; pulp fiction; detective  fiction; plays; polemic; criminological and psychoanalytic  tracts; letters and memoirs by condemned persons and by  executioners; and major works of canonical literature by  authors including James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Elizabeth  Bowen, Graham Greene, Flann OBrien. Cases of the death  penalty that sparked particular public debate and had  substantial literary influence are explored, including the  Roger Casement Case (UK (Ireland) 1916), the Edith Thompson  case (UK, 1923) and the Leopold and Loeb case (USA, 1924).},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52750-1},
      recid = {1433815},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}