Download or read book The Gallows in the Greenwood written by Phyllis Ann Karr and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the Robin Hood legend, but for this retelling, Phyllis Ann Karr has found a historical precident to create a female Sheriff of Nottingham and suddenly the whole myth explodes, taking on new meanings that resonate deep within contemporary culture. "The Gallows in the Greenwood does for Robin Hood what The Mists of Avalon did for King Arthur " --John Gregory Betancourt, Author of Nine Princes of Chaos
Download or read book The Gallows in the Greenwood written by Phyllis Ann Karr and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Karr has found a historical precedent to create a female Sheriff of Nottingham for this retelling of the Robin Hood legend ... A remarkable work which recasts the traditional roles and sheds new light on the relationship between the famous characters.
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Download or read book Against the Gallows written by Paul Christian Jones and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Against the Gallows, Paul Christian Jones explores the intriguing cooperation of America’s writers—including major figures such as Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E. D. E. N. Southworth, and Herman Melville—with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and periodical editors who attempted to end the practice of capital punishment in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. In an age of passionate reform efforts, the antigallows movement enjoyed broad popularity, waging its campaign in legislatures, pulpits, newspapers, and literary journals. Although it failed in its ultimate goal of ending hangings across the United States, the movement did achieve various improvements in the practices of the justice system, including reducing the number of capital crimes, eliminating public executions in most northern states, and abolishing capital punishment completely in three states. Although a few historians have studied the antebellum movement against capital punishment, until now very little attention has been paid to the role of America’s writers in these efforts. Jones’s study recovers the relationship between the nation’s literary figures and the movement against the death penalty, illustrating that the editors of literary journals actively encouraged and published antigallows writing, that popular crime novelists created a sympathy toward criminals that led readers to question the state’s justifications for capital punishment, that poets crafted verse that advocated strongly for Christian sympathy for criminals that coincided with an antipathy to the death penalty, and that female sentimental writers fashioned melodramatic narratives that illustrated the injustice of the hanging and reimagined the justice system itself as a sympathetic subject capable of incorporating compassion into its workings and seeing reform rather than revenge as its ends.
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Download or read book Walter Greenwood s Love on the Dole written by Chris Hopkins and published by Liverpool English Texts and St. This book was released on 2018 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives the fullest account so far of the origins, success and public impact of Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole in all three of its versions: novel (1933), play (1935) and film (1941).
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