The United States set about defining and reforming its criminal justice institutions during the antebellum years, just as an innovative, expanding print culture afforded authors and publishers unprecedented opportunities to reflect on these important social developments. Carl Ostrowski traces the impact of these related historical processes on American literature, identifying a set of culturally resonant narratives that emerged from criminal justice-related discourse to shape the period's national literary expression.
Drawing on an eclectic range of sources including newspaper arrest...
The United States set about defining and reforming its criminal justice institutions during the antebellum years, just as an innovative, expanding ...
The United States set about defining and reforming its criminal justice institutions during the antebellum years, just as an innovative, expanding print culture afforded authors and publishers unprecedented opportunities to reflect on these important social developments. Carl Ostrowski traces the impact of these related historical processes on American literature, identifying a set of culturally resonant narratives that emerged from criminal justice-related discourse to shape the period's national literary expression.
Drawing on an eclectic range of sources including newspaper arrest...
The United States set about defining and reforming its criminal justice institutions during the antebellum years, just as an innovative, expanding ...
