Includes papers presented at a special session entitled Executions and the British experience held during the annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, held Mar. 1987, University of North Carolina--Greensboro. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-172) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / William B. Thesing -- The aesthetic execution of Charles I : Clarendon to Hume / Donald T. Siebert -- Locke and Beccaria : faculty psychology and capital punishment / Steven Lynn -- Henry Fielding and "a certain wooden edifice" called the gallows / Gayle R. Swanson -- Crime and punishment in 1777 : the execution of the Reverend Dr. William Dodd and its impact upon his contemporaries / John J. Burke, Jr. -- The public execution : urban rhetoric and Victorian crowds / Barry Faulk -- "All the hideous apparatus of death" : Dickens and executions / F.S. Schwarzbach -- The execution of Tess d'Urberville at Wintoncester / Beth Kalikoff -- The frame for the feeling : hangings in poetry by Wordsworth, Patmore, and Housman / William B. Thesing -- "Hats off!" ; the roots of Victorian public hangings / Michael Jasper -- Public executions in Victorian England : a reform adrift / David D. Cooper.
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