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Ebury persuasively shows how literary writers of all "brows" thematised the death penalty during her later nominated timeframe. In Chapter 2, Ebury examines the influence of psychoanalysis on the extended written confessions of murderers, a common feature in death penalty narratives. Katherine Ebury's I Modern Literature and the Death Penalty, 1890-1950 i , which is part of Palgrave Macmillan's series investigating 'how cultural critique can inform understandings of human rights as normative instruments', examines how the death penalty has featured as a theme and trope in modern Anglo-American literature. [Extracted from the article] |
