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Victorians Against the Gallows - Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain (Paperback)
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Victorians Against the Gallows - Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain (Paperback)
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By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the
list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had been reduced
to murder, yet the gallows remained a source of controversy in
Victorian Britain and there was growing unease in liberal quarters
surrounding the question of capital punishment. Focusing in part on
the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital
Punishment, James Gregory examines abolitionist strategies, leaders
and personnel. He locates the 'gallows question' in an imperial
context and explores the ways in which debates about the gallows
and abolition featured in literature, from poetry to 'novels of
purpose' and popular romances of the underworld. He places the
abolitionist movement within the wider Victorian worlds of
philanthropy, religious orthodoxy and social morality in a study
which will be essential reading for students and researchers of
Victorian history.
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