Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860 : A Study in Social Values / David Brion Davis.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©1968Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9781501726217
- 813.209
- PS374.H6
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE. Homicide and the Nature of Man -- PART TWO. The A bnormal Heart and Mind -- PART THREE. The Fundamental Motive -- PART FOUR. Homicide and Society -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intellectual currents in an attempt to integrate social attitudes toward such diverse subjects as human evil, moral responsibility, criminal insanity, social causes of crime, dueling, lynching, the "unwritten law" of a husband's revenge, and capital punishment. In addition to works of literary distinction by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe, among others, Davis considers a large body of cheap popular fiction generally ignored in previous studies of the literature of this period. This is an engrossing study of fiction as a reflection of and a commentary on social problems and as an influence shaping general beliefs and opinions.
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