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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860 - A Study in Social Values (Paperback)
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Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860 - A Study in Social Values (Paperback)
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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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