The Dead Alive

ISBN-13: 9781554814336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 120 str.

Wilkie Collins; Anna Clark

Spis treści

• Introduction
• William Wilkie Collins
• The Dead Alive in Context
• A Note on the Text
• The Dead Alive
• In Context
• The Boorn Murder Trial
• from Leonard Sargent, The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn, for the Murder of Russell Colvin, and the Return of the Man Supposed to Have Been Murdered (1873)
• from Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Seventieth Session, "Report of the Select Committee on the Abolishment of Capital Punishment" (5 March 1847)
• from Lemuel Haynes, "The Prisoner Released. A Sermon delivered at Manchester, Vermont, Lord's Day, Man. 9th, 1820, on the remarkable interpositin of Divine Providence in the deliverance of Stephen and Jesse Boorn, who had been under sentence of death for the supposed murder of Russell Colvin." In Sketches of the Life and Character of Rev. Lemuel Haynes, A.M., by Timothy Mather Cooley (1837)
• On the American Character
  • from Alexis de Tocqueville, "Of the Principal Source of Belief Among Democratc Nations," Democracy in America, vol. 2, trans. Henry Reeve (1841)
  • from Charles Dickens, American Notes (1842)
  • American Reviews
  • from "The Dead Alive" (Review), Cincinnati Daily Enquirer (4 January 1874)
  • from "New Publications" (Review of The Dead Alive), Christian Watchman (5 February 1874)
  • from "Literariana" (Review of The Dead Alive), The Daily Graphic (18 February 1874)
  • from "New Publications" (Review of The Dead Alive), The Christian Register (21 February 1874)
  • from "Novels of the Week" (Review of The Frozen Deep, and Other Stories), The Athenaeum (21 November 1874)
  • Advertising, Illustrations
  • from The Commercial Advertiser (3 January 1874)
  • Illustrations from Shepard and Gill edition of The Dead Alive
  • Acknowledgments