Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values

by David Brion Davis

Homicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860 is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intellectual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150172620X
• ISBN13: 9781501726200
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher