The Shadow of Death: Literature, Romanticism, and the Subject of Punishment

by Mark Canuel

Book Overview

The Shadow of Death is a timely and ambitious reassessment of English Romantic literature and the unique role it played in one of the great liberal political causes of the modern age. Mark Canuel argues that Romantic writers in Great Britain led one of the earliest assaults on the death penalty and were instrumental in bringing about penal-law reforms. He demonstrates how writers like Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691129614
• ISBN13: 9780691129617
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"