From public spectacle to hidden ritual : execution culture in nineteeth century Britain /: execution culture in nineteeth century Britain. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Helen Rutherford, Clare Sandford-Couch, Patrick Low.
• Editors: Rutherford, Helen; Sandford-Couch, Clare; Low, Patrick
• Contents: Introduction Chapter 1, ‘[T]he broken stave at the top of the ladder of England’s civilisation’: Representing the ending of public execution in 1868; James Gregory PART 1: Going to See a Man Hanged: Chapter 2, ‘A practice which wounds only the living’: Publicly Punishing the Criminal Body in Nineteenth-Century Scotland; Rachel Bennett Chapter 3, ‘Every Loathsome Reptile Form of Vice and Crime’. Formulations of the Nineteenth-Century London Execution Crowd: Fears, Fictions and Realities; Matthew White Chapter 4, ‘How Murderers Die’: The Impact of the 1868 Abolition of Public Execution on Life-writing by Executioners; Katherine Ebury Chapter 5, ‘Stand in the place of those executed’: Interpreting Capital Punishment in UK Prison Museums; Rhiannon Pickin PART 2: ‘One had better narrate the circumstances as they occurred’ Chapter 6, ‘[…] were sensation our object, it would not be difficult to cull from the Newgate Calendar ’: Periodical Journalism and Distaste for Public Executions, c. 1830-1870. Samuel Saunders Chapter 7, George Vass: the making and un-making of a criminal monster. Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Couch Chapter 8, The ‘Hermetically sealed’ Prison: Witnessing Executions in the North East of England 1868-1878; Patrick Low Chapter 9, The only consolation is that the criminal is not a Welshman: The foreign-born men hanged in Wales, 1840-1900; Stephanie Emma Brown Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 364.66094109034; Public executions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Capital punishment -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000095814; 9781000095791; 9781000095807; 9780429318832
• Related ISBNs: 9780367332457
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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