Reading prisoners : literature, literacy, and the transformation of American punishment, 1700-1845 / Jodi Schorb.

Shining new light on early American prison literature-from its origins in last words, dying warnings, and gallows literature to its later works of autobiography, exposé, and imaginative literature-Reading Prisoners weaves together insights about the rise of the early American penitentiary, the hist...

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Main Author: Schorb, Jodi, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Series:Critical issues in crime and society.
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