Literary Executions

“Rich with historical detail . . . examines the figure and theme of the death penalty in imaginative literature from Cooper to Dreiser.” —Gregg Crane, Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan Drawing from legal and extralegal discourse but focusing on imaginative literature,  Literary Executions  examines representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States over the long nineteenth century. John Cyr