By John Cyril Barton
ISBN-10: 1421413329
ISBN-13: 9781421413327
ISBN-10: 1421413337
ISBN-13: 9781421413334
Drawing from criminal and extralegal discourse yet concentrating on inventive literature, Literary Executions examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and opposed to the demise penalty within the usa over the lengthy 19th century. John Cyril Barton creates a generative discussion among creative relics and criminal background. He appears to be like to novels, brief tales, poems, and inventive nonfiction in addition to legislative reviews, trial transcripts, criminal files, newspaper and magazine articles, treatises, and well known books (like The checklist of Crimes, A Defence of Capital Punishment, and The Gallows, the criminal, and the terrible House), all of which have been a part of the talk over the loss of life penalty.
Barton makes a speciality of numerous canonical figures―James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria baby, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser―and deals new readings in their paintings in gentle of the loss of life penalty controversy. Barton additionally provides shut awareness to a number of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers―particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard―whose paintings contributed to shaping or was once formed by way of the influential anti-gallows stream.
Analyzing the stress among sovereignty and social accountability in a democratic republic, Barton argues that the excessive stakes of capital punishment dramatize the disagreement among the citizen-subject and sovereign authority in its starkest phrases. In bringing jointly the social and the cultured, Barton exhibits how criminal varieties knowledgeable literary types and lines the emergence of the trendy nation when it comes to the management of lawful death.
By enticing the politics and poetics of capital punishment, Literary Executions contends that the move to abolish the loss of life penalty within the usa will be noticeable as an immense a part of the context that caused the flowering of the yankee Renaissance in the course of the antebellum interval and that inspired literature later within the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Antigallows activism in Boston helped to spark an interstate movement for abolition in other cities across the North and Midwest, particularly in New York and Philadelphia. Evidence for that alliance can be found in the widely circulating New York Tribune, which covered progress of Massachusetts’s abolition bill, reporting that the awfully solemn duty of hanging the convicted criminal . . instead of being longer imposed upon the sheriffs, whose humane feelings are often shocked by such brutality, may hereafter by assigned to hangman, such as your wisdom may enable you to select out of that numerous portion of the clergy, who are the most zealous advocates of judicial murder, and through whose influence the inhuman practice has been so long continued.
Stanton is best known for her leadership in the women’s suffrage movement, but she began her career in reform with the campaign for temperance, the last of the major nineteenth- century reform movements with ties to anti-gallows activism. Of course, not all temperance reformers protested capital punishment— Cheever, again, marks a notable exception—but many did. And some temperance magazines, such as the Journal of the American Temperance Union and the American Temperance Magazine and Sons of Temperance Offering, made antigallows statements, just as Spear’s The Hangman and The Prisoner’s Friend frequently preached the virtues of temperance and linked murder to the consumption of spirits.
Channing, Josiah Hopper, and John L. O’Sullivan as 16 L i t e r a r y E x e c u t io n s officers. With the exception of O’Sullivan, each of these committee members was a staunch opponent of slavery, and both Bryant and O’Sullivan were important literary figures and newspaper men. 41 In addition to editing the News, O’Sullivan was founder and editor in chief of the United States Magazine and the Democratic Review, one of the nation’s premier literary journals and a principal organ for promoting the anti-gallows cause.