Public Execution in England, 1573–1868, Part II vol 7

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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The execution narrative was a popular genre in early modern England. This facsimile edition draws together a representative selection of texts to show the evolution of the genre from the late sixteenth century to the end of public execution in England nearly 300 years later.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-06-01
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt870 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138756427

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Volume 7 William Prynne, The Sword of Christian Magistracy Supported (1647); Gerard Winstanley, The New Law of Righteousness (1649); Samuel Chidley, A Cry Against a Crying Sinne (1652); The Penitent Prisoner (1675); Hanging Not Punishment Enough, for Murtherers, High-way Men, and House-Breakers (1701); Samuel Rossell, The Prisoner's Director: Compiled for the Instruction and Comfort of Persons Under Confinement (1742); Hanging No Dishonour ... Persons as have the Honour to make their Exit at the Tripple-Tree are not always the Greatest Villians in the Nation [c.1747]; A Plain and Serious Exhortation to Prisoners, Both Debtors and Criminals (1775); M Dawes, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments... Beccaria, Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Fielding and Blackstone (1782); John William Polidori, 'On the Punishment of Death', Pamphleteer (1816); 'On Capital Punishment', The Times (1818); Basil Montagu, Thoughts on the Punishment of Death for Forgery (1830); 'Repeal of Death for Forgery', Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle (1830); The Dying Criminal. Addressed to the Spectators of an Execution [c.1830]; The London Juror's Petition (1833); 'Popular Feeling on Capital Punishment', Penny Satirist (1837); James Peggs, Capital Punishment: the Importance of its Abolition [c.1839]; Lord Nugent, On the Punishment of Death by Law (1840); W M Thackeray, 'Going to see a Man Hanged', Fraser's Magazine (1840)