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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 721–750.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Laura H. Korobkin Duke University Press 2000 Laura H. Murder by Madman: Criminal Responsibility,
Korobkin Law, and Judgment in Wieland
6218 American Literature 72:4 / sheet 31 of238 At a critical moment in Charles...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 691–719.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Mary Kathleen Eyring Abstract In 1701 Puritan minister John Rogers published the criminal narrative of Esther Rodgers, who had been convicted of infanticide and executed. Esther Rodgers appears in Rogers’s Death the Certain Wages of Sin not as a depraved criminal or even a repentant sinner...
Journal Article
American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 65–92.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of a Slave Girl (1865) in conjunction with the 1855 trial of Celia, an executed murderous slave, to compare specific literary and legal interpretations of North Carolina and Missouri slave law against a more general understanding of slaves' legal “double character” to argue that both women, through criminal...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 491–521.
Published: 01 September 2019
... person rather than the human or the citizen, United States v. Amy alerts us to the lethal legacy of slave personhood as a debilitating mixture of civil death and criminal culpability. Nowhere, perhaps, is that legacy more evident than in viral videos of police misconduct. And nowhere do we see a more...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 7–34.
Published: 01 March 2009
... in newsprint constituted the agency and subjectivity of slaves who petitioned Northern courts for freedom (in counterdistinction from the criminal will of the fugitive). Their cases reveal the contradictory logic by which abolitionists disregarded the slaves' express desires to remain with their masters...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 111–140.
Published: 01 March 2018
... undermines the state’s claims to rationality and moderation and that the book’s exploration of queer, criminalized, and racialized subjectivity resists the pathologizing discourses that legitimized state violence. The novel’s transformation did not merely excise its sexual content, then, but greatly...
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Rescued Children and Unfit Mothers: Dreiser’s Social Work in the Delineator ’s Child-Rescue Campaign
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 57–89.
Published: 01 March 2017
... experts, saving “future citizens” by rescuing them “out of a life of crime” and into white, middle-class domesticity, at the same time articulating the child’s biological mother as criminal and nonwhite. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 adoption realism race and ethnicity...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 119–149.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Gatsby's criminality. In the end, these tabloid shadows allow us to challenge the recent revisionist arguments about the corporate and Fordist character of Gatsby's gangsterhood, and to reassess Fitzgerald's contribution to the form of vernacular modernism we now call American noir. © 2012 by Duke...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 373–401.
Published: 01 June 2002
..., sometimes antagonistic relationship between sentimental and
legal discourses.
The image of womanhood that emerges from the complex intersec-
tion of sentiment and law, which I will examine in this essay, alternates
between victim and criminal, between object of collective fantasy and
disciplinary...
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American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 65–91.
Published: 01 March 2025
... is generated by a certain asymmetry of information, yet in The Gilded Lady the asymmetry is not between the Secret Service agent and the counterfeiter but between the subordinate operative, Chardon, and his superior, Chief Phil Barnes, who is already aware of the identity of the criminal and the crime...
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Fictions of the Panopticon: Prison, Utopia, and the Out-Penitent in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 121–145.
Published: 01 March 2001
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would like to replace the utopian colony of Blithedale. More’s apoc-
ryphal Utopia, however, had no prisons; a two-tiered justice system
provided pleasant slavery for a first offense and execution for a two-
time loser.2 The approach to managing criminals in More’s sixteenth-
century Utopia is like...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 325–355.
Published: 01 June 2006
... controversial campaign to pro-
mote anti-seduction legislation both contradicted and converged with
feminist rhetoric. While the evangelical reformers wanted to redeem
seduced women, feminists aspired to redeem society. And where the
reformers seized on trials like Norman’s to press for the criminal...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 349–377.
Published: 01 June 2005
... criminals. In
Prince of the City, Mafia influence even leads to the corruption of the
criminal court system. Even the revisionist urban histories written
in the resurgent pluralism of the 1970s, which generally adopted a
more charitable view of what they now called ‘‘Eastern’’ or ward-based
policing...
Journal Article
American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 665–693.
Published: 01 December 2016
... and rapine.” According to his first biographer, Brown brooded that “if the widow and the orphan were . . . by a legal robbery deprived of their just and righteous claims through the superior artifice or eloquence of the advocate, was he not as criminal as the man who committed such felony without...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 35–64.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Southern bondage.6
Revelation of fugitives’ histories could transport them back to the
South not only geographically, but temporally—back to their prior
status as property capable of only criminal agency. And, although the
goal of the abolitionist-sponsored slave narrative...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 447–457.
Published: 01 September 2019
... a nineteenth-century case of slave law, United States v. Amy (1859), DeLombard demonstrates how the case shows the “lethal legacy of slave personhood as a debilitating mixture of civil death and criminal culpability.” That is, the law recognized the slave as a legal person primarily to subject her...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (2): 207–234.
Published: 01 June 2006
... of this alchemy.
The more the cell becomes a metaphor for subjectivity at large,
the more the historical prison disappears. Reformers imagine the
penitentiary as a mechanism that corrects criminals, and just as the
image of the self-correcting penitent obscures the physical struggle
between the inmate...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 619–647.
Published: 01 September 2019
... categorization as bare life, since their variable status throughout US history as slaves, incarcerated criminals, and disenfranchised nonconstituents has consistently ensured their exclusion from full political participation in the civic order alongside their necessary inclusion as second-class subjects in order...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 301–330.
Published: 01 June 2016
... of criminal law, tort, and contract, it narrates the law’s evolution from an ancient collection of practices rooted in kinship and blood sacrifice to a contemporary system of common-law jurisprudence. A narrative explanation of what Holmes means by “the life” of the law, The Common Law is a natural history...
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
Published: 01 March 2011
... because of the number and visibility of cases of “actual inno-
cence,” a phrase meant to distinguish exonerations based on factual
innocence from those resulting from due-process or legal errors. The
innocence argument maintains that because the criminal justice sys...
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