Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain: From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual

ISBN-13: 9780367332457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 200 str.

Helen Rutherford; Clare Sandford-Couch; Patrick Low

Opis

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison wall.

Recenzje

'Execution Culture offers a series of intriguing case studies in the ways that an absence becomes present in a culture.'

- Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles