The shadow of death : literature, romanticism, and the subject of punishment /

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Author / Creator:	Canuel, Mark.
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 206 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Romanticism -- Great Britain. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Punishment in literature. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Justice in literature. Death in literature. Death in literature. English literature. Justice in literature. Literature and society. Punishment in literature. Romanticism. Great Britain. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256030

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ISBN:	1400880238 9781400880232 0691129614 0691171211 9780691129617
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index. In English. Print version record.
Summary:	"[This book] is a timely and ambitious reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. Mark Canuel argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of the earliest assaults on the death penalty and were instrumental in bringing about penal-law reforms. He demonstrates how writers like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, and Jane Austen defined the fundamental contradictions that continue to inform todays debates about capital punishment."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: 9781400880232
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781400880232

Table of Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction Cain's Legacy, Nietzsche's Complaint; Chapter 1 "The Horrors of My Dreams"; Chapter 2 Uncertain Providence and Certain Punishment: Hannah More; Chapter 3 "Shuddering o'er the Grave": Wordsworth, Poetry, and the Punishment of Death; Chapter 4 Jane Austen, the Romantic Novel, and the Importance of Being Wrong; Chapter 5 Coleridge, Shelley, and the Poetics of Conscience; Chapter 6 The Two Abolitions; Coda The Culture of the Death Penalty; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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