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Author Jarvis, Brian.
Title Cruel and unusual : punishment and US culture / Brian Jarvis.
Publication Info London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004.


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Descript 287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents Introduction : birth of a prison nation -- The scarlet letter and the long forever of Puritan punishment -- Reading the Rosenbergs : the public burning and the Book of Daniel -- Punishment, resistance, and the African-American experience -- The whip, the noose, the cell, and their lover : Melville the masochist -- Inside the American prison film -- Conclusion : waves of the future, echoes of the past.
ISBN 0745315380 (pbk.)
0745315437
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Author Jarvis, Brian.
Subject Punishment -- United States -- History.
Punishment in literature.
Descript 287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents Introduction : birth of a prison nation -- The scarlet letter and the long forever of Puritan punishment -- Reading the Rosenbergs : the public burning and the Book of Daniel -- Punishment, resistance, and the African-American experience -- The whip, the noose, the cell, and their lover : Melville the masochist -- Inside the American prison film -- Conclusion : waves of the future, echoes of the past.
ISBN 0745315380 (pbk.)
0745315437
Author Jarvis, Brian.
Subject Punishment -- United States -- History.
Punishment in literature.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL Reading Room 1st floor HDC  HV 9466 J3  4 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Punishment -- United States -- History.
Punishment in literature.
Descript 287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents Introduction : birth of a prison nation -- The scarlet letter and the long forever of Puritan punishment -- Reading the Rosenbergs : the public burning and the Book of Daniel -- Punishment, resistance, and the African-American experience -- The whip, the noose, the cell, and their lover : Melville the masochist -- Inside the American prison film -- Conclusion : waves of the future, echoes of the past.
ISBN 0745315380 (pbk.)
0745315437
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