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- catalog abstract "The criminal justice system in America is as powerful a shaper of history and society as its better-known counterparts - the military, politics, government, and technology. In a country that lacks a mandatory death sentence for specific crimes, the American strategy for execution proves to be based more upon distinctions between offenders than upon distinctions between offenses. Five important novels - McTeague, An American Tragedy, Native Son, In Cold Blood and the Executioner's Song - bring readers a vivid awareness of America's punitive codes. Fach details the story of a life that leads to the gallows. Sentenced to Death places these works against the historical background of crime and capital punishment in America, a nation where public discourse on crime is dominated by images of the electric-chair and the gas chamber, by maximum security prisons, by hardened convicts out on parole. Such images, in turn, mirror and shape the exercise of punitive power.".
- catalog contributor b10254653.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-176) and index.".
- catalog description "Power, narrative, and capital punishment -- Frank Norris's McTeague : Darwin and police power -- Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy : resistance, normalization, and deterrence -- Richard Wright's Native son : rhetorical determinism -- Truman Capote's In cold blood : the novel as prison -- Norman Mailer's The executioner's song : strategies of defiance.".
- catalog description "The criminal justice system in America is as powerful a shaper of history and society as its better-known counterparts - the military, politics, government, and technology. In a country that lacks a mandatory death sentence for specific crimes, the American strategy for execution proves to be based more upon distinctions between offenders than upon distinctions between offenses. Five important novels - McTeague, An American Tragedy, Native Son, In Cold Blood and the Executioner's Song - bring readers a vivid awareness of America's punitive codes. Fach details the story of a life that leads to the gallows. Sentenced to Death places these works against the historical background of crime and capital punishment in America, a nation where public discourse on crime is dominated by images of the electric-chair and the gas chamber, by maximum security prisons, by hardened convicts out on parole. Such images, in turn, mirror and shape the exercise of punitive power.".
- catalog extent "xx, 179 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Sentenced to death.".
- catalog identifier "0878059172 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0878059180 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sentenced to death.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,".
- catalog relation "Sentenced to death.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.509355 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Capital punishment in literature.".
- catalog subject "Capote, Truman, 1924-1984. In cold blood.".
- catalog subject "Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. American tragedy.".
- catalog subject "Executions and executioners in literature.".
- catalog subject "Law and literature History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Law and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Legal stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Mailer, Norman. Executioner's song.".
- catalog subject "Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. McTeague.".
- catalog subject "PS374.L34 G84 1997".
- catalog subject "Trials (Murder) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. Native son.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Power, narrative, and capital punishment -- Frank Norris's McTeague : Darwin and police power -- Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy : resistance, normalization, and deterrence -- Richard Wright's Native son : rhetorical determinism -- Truman Capote's In cold blood : the novel as prison -- Norman Mailer's The executioner's song : strategies of defiance.".
- catalog title "Sentenced to death : the American novel and capital punishment / David Guest.".
- catalog type "text".