Modern literature and the death penalty, 1890-1950 / Katherine Ebury.
2021
PN56.C355 E28 2021
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Title
Modern literature and the death penalty, 1890-1950 / Katherine Ebury.
ISBN
9783030527501 (electronic bk.)
3030527506 (electronic bk.)
9783030527495
3030527492
3030527506 (electronic bk.)
9783030527495
3030527492
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-52750-1 doi
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PN56.C355 E28 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/355609041
Summary
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).
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Palgrave studies in literature, culture, and human rights
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Modern Cultures of the Death Penalty
Chapter 2: Confession and the Self in a Death Penalty Context
Chapter 3: Psychoanalysis and the gothic death penalty
Chapter 4: Life-writing and Capital Punishment
Chapter 5: Animal Pain and Capital Punishment
Chapter 6: Sex, Gender and the Death Penalty in Joyce, Yeats and the 1916 Generation
Chapter 7: Literature, the Death Penalty, and War Trauma.
Chapter 2: Confession and the Self in a Death Penalty Context
Chapter 3: Psychoanalysis and the gothic death penalty
Chapter 4: Life-writing and Capital Punishment
Chapter 5: Animal Pain and Capital Punishment
Chapter 6: Sex, Gender and the Death Penalty in Joyce, Yeats and the 1916 Generation
Chapter 7: Literature, the Death Penalty, and War Trauma.