國立虎尾科技大學 |

Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950/ by Katherine Ebury.
Author:	Ebury, Katherine.
Description:	IX, 282 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Literature, Modern—20th century. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52750-1
ISBN:	9783030527501

Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950
Ebury, Katherine.

Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950[electronic resource] /by Katherine Ebury. - 1st ed. 2021. - IX, 282 p.online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights,2524-8820. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights,.

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’.

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 O’Brien. 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). .

ISBN: 9783030527501

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-52750-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254198
Literature, Modern—20th century.

LC Class. No.: PN770-779

Dewey Class. No.: 809.04

Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950
LDR:02918nam a22004095i 4500 001 1053108
003 DE-He213
005 20210625174651.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 220103s2021 gw | s |||| 0|eng d
020 $a 9783030527501 $9 978-3-030-52750-1
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-3-030-52750-1 $2 doi
035 $a 978-3-030-52750-1
050 4 $a PN770-779
072 7 $a DSBH $2 bicssc
072 7 $a LIT024050 $2 bisacsh
072 7 $a DSBH $2 thema
082 0 4 $a 809.04 $2 23
100 1 $a Ebury, Katherine. $4 aut $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut $3 1010143
245 1 0 $a Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950 $h [electronic resource] / $c by Katherine Ebury.
250 $a 1st ed. 2021.
264 1 $a Cham : $b Springer International Publishing : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2021.
300 $a IX, 282 p. $b online resource.
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
347 $a text file $b PDF $2 rda
490 1 $a Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights, $x 2524-8820
505 0 $a 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’.
520 $a 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 O’Brien. 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). .
650 0 $a Literature, Modern—20th century. $3 1254198
650 0 $a Human rights. $3 554782
650 1 4 $a Twentieth-Century Literature. $3 1105346
650 2 4 $a Human Rights. $3 883254
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 593884
773 0 $t Springer Nature eBook
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9783030527495
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9783030527518
776 0 8 $i Printed edition: $z 9783030527525
830 0 $a Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Human Rights, $x 2524-8820 $3 1314955
856 4 0 $u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52750-1
912 $a ZDB-2-LCM
912 $a ZDB-2-SXL
950 $a Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (SpringerNature-41173)
950 $a Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0) (SpringerNature-43723)