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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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The agony of murder, written [in verse] by a prisoner under sentence of death, ed. by J. Davis
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Author: AgonyNineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: A Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Legal Literature: A-G
Author: John AdamsPublisher: Avero Publications
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
Book Description
Minor British Poets, 1789-1918: The early Victorian period, 1840-1869
Author: University of California, Davis. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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The Literary Gazette
Author: Minor British Poets, 1789-1918
Author: University of California, Davis. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age
Author: James GregoryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 135014245X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria's reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of 'emotional' appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory's sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a major theme in British cultural history during the 'long 19th century'. This will be essential reading for those interested in the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.
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Author: Robin MyersPublisher: Oxford : Oxford Polytechnic Press
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Author: Angela Y. DavisPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609801040
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in these struggles, their chances of success seemed almost unthinkable. For generations of Americans, the abolition of slavery was sheerest illusion. Similarly,the entrenched system of racial segregation seemed to last forever, and generations lived in the midst of the practice, with few predicting its passage from custom. The brutal, exploitative (dare one say lucrative?) convict-lease system that succeeded formal slavery reaped millions to southern jurisdictions (and untold miseries for tens of thousands of men, and women). Few predicted its passing from the American penal landscape. Davis expertly argues how social movements transformed these social, political and cultural institutions, and made such practices untenable. In Are Prisons Obsolete?, Professor Davis seeks to illustrate that the time for the prison is approaching an end. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration", and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole.
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