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.
Bibliography
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.
