Peter Okun

Crime and the Nation (eBook, ePUB)

Prison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and '90s witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind of prison. The world's first penitentiary-style prison opened at Philadelphia in 1790. At the same time jurists, reformers and fiction writers found new uses for the criminal. Suddenly, he was fascinating, he was edifying to the community, he was worth displaying and reforming. In a young nation whose very origins were perceived as criminal, yet clearly necessary and ultimately redeemable, crime emerged as an essential-and controversial-component of national identity. Crime and the Nation explores the nature of that identity, and the origins of America's unique and enduring love affair with crime and crime fiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317794592
• Artikelnr.: 55170688

Autorenporträt

Specializing in Literary History and the Early Modern Period, Peter T.M. Okun, holds a Ph.D. in Literature and teaches at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia. Dr. Okun's research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to literature, and range from prison reform and popular culture to psychology, law and literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Philadelphia StoryChapter One: The Science of Crime and
the Crime of ScienceChapter Two: Nationalism and the Aesthetics of
MurderChapter Three: Sexual Crimes: Justice and Gender in the 1790sChapter
Four: Prison and the Law: The Philadelphia ReformsChapter Five: Prison and
the Law: The Philadelphia FictionsChapter Six: ConclusionBibliography of
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