Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction
writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when
these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and '90s
witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that
produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind of prison. The
world's first penitentiary-style prison opened at Philadelphia in
1790. At the same time jurists, reformers and fiction writers found
new uses for the criminal. Suddenly, he was fascinating, he was
edifying to the community, he was worth displaying and reforming.
In a young nation whose very origins were perceived as criminal,
yet clearly necessary and ultimately redeemable, crime emerged as
an essential-and controversial-component of national identity.
Crime and the Nation explores the nature of that identity, and the
origins of America's unique and enduring love affair with crime and
crime fiction.
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