Homicide in American Fiction, 1789-1860
Author | : David Brion Davis |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : David Brion Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : David Brion Davis |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501726226 |
Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798–1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intellectual currents in an attempt to integrate social attitudes toward such diverse subjects as human evil, moral responsibility, criminal insanity, social causes of crime, dueling, lynching, the "unwritten law" of a husband's revenge, and capital punishment. In addition to works of literary distinction by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe, among others, Davis considers a large body of cheap popular fiction generally ignored in previous studies of the literature of this period. This is an engrossing study of fiction as a reflection of and a commentary on social problems and as an influence shaping general beliefs and opinions.
Author | : David Brion Davis |
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Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : David Brion Davis |
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Release | : 1956 |
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Author | : Lorna Ruth Wiedmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Allan G Lloyd-Smith |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1989-02-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349197548 |
Author | : Avril Horner |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2015-12-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230582818 |
This new collection of essays by major scholars in the field looks at the ways in which cross-fertilization has taken place in Gothic writing from France, Germany, Britain and America over the last 200 years, and argues that Gothic writing reflects international exchanges in theme and form.
Author | : Stephen Kern |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2009-01-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400826233 |
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels, each chapter considers the sciences (genetics, endocrinology, physiology, neuroscience) and systems of thought (psychoanalysis, linguistics, sociology, forensic psychiatry, and existential philosophy) most germane to each causal factor or motive. Kern identifies five shifts in thinking about causality, shifts toward increasing specificity, multiplicity, complexity, probability, and uncertainty. He argues that the more researchers learned about the causes of human behavior, the more they realized how much more there was to know and how little they knew about what they thought they knew. The book closes by considering the revolutionary impact of quantum theory, which, though it influenced novelists only marginally, shattered the model of causal understanding that had dominated Western thought since the seventeenth century. Others have addressed changing ideas about causality in specific areas, but no one has tackled a broad cultural history of this concept as does Stephen Kern in this engagingly written and lucidly argued book.
Author | : Clare Taylor |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1994-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1349237663 |
British and American anti-slavery societies were established in the 1820s and 1830s and from an early date included women campaigners. Typical of female abolitionists, the Weston sisters wrote, collected monies and signatures for petitions but rarely spoke in public or advocated a peculiarly feminist cause. This study uncovers their work in America, Britain and France, their connections and campaigns and their contribution both to the anti-slavery movement and to the forging of an Anglo-American democratic alliance.
Author | : Susanna L. Blumenthal |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 589 |
Release | : 2016-02-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674495535 |
In postrevolutionary America, the autonomous individual was both the linchpin of a young nation and a threat to the founders’ vision of ordered liberty. Conceiving of self-government as a psychological as well as a political project, jurists built a republic of laws upon the Enlightenment science of the mind with the aim of producing a responsible citizenry. Susanna Blumenthal probes the assumptions and consequences of this undertaking, revealing how ideas about consciousness, agency, and accountability have shaped American jurisprudence. Focusing on everyday adjudication, Blumenthal shows that mental soundness was routinely disputed in civil as well as criminal cases. Litigants presented conflicting religious, philosophical, and medical understandings of the self, intensifying fears of a populace maddened by too much liberty. Judges struggled to reconcile common sense notions of rationality with novel scientific concepts that suggested deviant behavior might result from disease rather than conscious choice. Determining the threshold of competence was especially vexing in litigation among family members that raised profound questions about the interconnections between love and consent. This body of law coalesced into a jurisprudence of insanity, which also illuminates the position of those to whom the insane were compared, particularly children, married women, and slaves. Over time, the liberties of the eccentric expanded as jurists came to recognize the diversity of beliefs held by otherwise reasonable persons. In calling attention to the problematic relationship between consciousness and liability, Law and the Modern Mind casts new light on the meanings of freedom in the formative era of American law.