Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and U.S. Culture
Autor Brian Jarvisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 ian 2004
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745315386
ISBN-10: 0745315380
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 135 x 215 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0745315380
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 135 x 215 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Brian Jarvis lectures in American Literature at Loughborough University. This is his first book.
Cuprins
1. Introduction: birth of a prison nation
2. The Scarlet Letter and the long forever of puritan punishment
3. Reading the Rosenbergs: The Public Burning and The Book of Daniel
4. Punishment, resistance and the African-American experience
5. The whip, the noose, the cell and their lover: Melville the masochist
6. Inside the American prison film
7. Conclusion: waves of the future, echoes of the past
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
2. The Scarlet Letter and the long forever of puritan punishment
3. Reading the Rosenbergs: The Public Burning and The Book of Daniel
4. Punishment, resistance and the African-American experience
5. The whip, the noose, the cell and their lover: Melville the masochist
6. Inside the American prison film
7. Conclusion: waves of the future, echoes of the past
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index