Crime and the Nation

Prison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800

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Peter Okun

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Studies in American Popular History and Culture

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Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and '90s witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind of prison. The world's first penitentiary-style prison opened at Philadelphia in 1790. At the same time jurists, reformers and fiction writers found new uses for the criminal. Suddenly, he was fascinating, he was edifying to the community, he was worth displaying and reforming. In a young nation whose very origins were perceived as criminal, yet clearly necessary and ultimately redeemable, crime emerged as an essential - and controversial - component of national identity. Crime and the Nation explores the nature of that identity and the origins of America's unique and enduring love affair with crime and crime fiction.

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Specializing in Literary History and the Early Modern Period, Peter T.M. Okun, holds a Ph.D. in Literature and teaches at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia. Dr. Okun's research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to literature, and range from prison reform and popular culture to psychology, law and literature.

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July 12th, 2002

Author

Peter Okun

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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate

Pages

208

Series

Studies in American Popular History and Culture

Dimensions

152x229x17

ISBN-13

9780415933865

Product ID

5245366

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