From public spectacle to hidden ritual : execution culture in nineteeth century Britain /: execution culture in nineteeth century Britain. (2020)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- From public spectacle to hidden ritual : execution culture in nineteeth century Britain /: execution culture in nineteeth century Britain. (2020)
- Main Title:
- From public spectacle to hidden ritual : execution culture in nineteeth century Britain
- 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.
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