Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain

Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain

From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual

Rutherford, Helen; Low, Patrick; Sandford-Couch, Clare

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2022

218

Mole

Inglês

9780367521462

15 a 20 dias

453

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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
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Capital Punishment;Public Execution;Modern Britain;Young Men;Execution culture;Nineteenth Century Murders;Criminal body;Criminal Bodies;Execution Crowd;Prison museums;Richard Ward;Crime Journalism;Private Executions;Bloody Code;Illustrated Police News;Public Hangings;Violated;Albert Pierrepoint;Public Punishment;Precincts;Persona;Follow;Capital Punishment History;Census;Wander;Gillan's Body;Dark Tourism