The shadow of death : literature, romanticism, and the subject of punishment /
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Author / Creator: | Canuel, Mark. |
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Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 206 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11256030 |
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.