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- W2214193637 abstract "LITERARY EXECUTIONS: Capital Punishment American Culture, 1820-1925. By John Cyril Barton. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2014.Midway through his exploration literary responses to the rancorous spectre the gallows-that instrument monarchical oppression, the exercise undue rights-Barton reproduces a single page text from Unitarian minister Sylvester Judd's avowedly anti-gallows novel, Margaret. Bruised by criticisms about his failure to draw a discreet veil over the violence the execution scene itself, Judd answered his critics by having the printer blot out the relevant paragraph entirely in the revised edition 1851. That bar black is startling, reminiscent of a coffin or the dark abyss (131) that is the opened trap. Like the so-called private hangings condemned criminals behind prison walls, the blackened-out passage served to remind . . . that readers, as citizens, could no longer see for themselves these public acts. . . .(131).The concept the 'reader citizen' is the silent twin another formulation central to Barton's study: that the citizen-subject (5). Over the long nineteenth century the reader-citizen was a potent idea, it was to that ideal reader, politically acute possessed a sentimental education, that antebellum postbellum authors addressed their evocations the gallows' dirty work. That dramaturgy the death penalty as narrative scaffolding (264) is central to James Fenimore Cooper's Ways the Hour The Spy to the complex working literal, rhetorical, symbolic scenes execution in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter The House the Seven Gables, all works that Barton treats intelligently, in depth, to explore the vexed relationship (267) between authority responsibility (4). Barton's study is strongest here, where it unpacks the trammeled idea republic where power derived from the people is, at times, used to put those people to death-a problem that exemplifies the tension between citizen (as individual [233]) subject (to sovereign power in the exercise law).Current trends in the interdisciplinary scholarship law (law literature; law cultural studies) put pressure on the work the humble article in that formulation. That and has been progressively displaced by other words that, like the biblical David, control the Goliaths to either side: cultural studies law, literature as law. …" @default.
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