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Book Synopsis
Explores who, and why, American society punishes, using examples from literature and film.

Trade Review
'This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey constructs a genealogy of cruelty' -- www.sirreadalot.org/issues/

Table of Contents
1. Introduction: birth of a prison nation
2. The Scarlet Letter and the long forever of puritan punishment
3. Reading the Rosenbergs: The Public Burning and The Book of Daniel
4. Punishment, resistance and the African-American experience
5. The whip, the noose, the cell and their lover: Melville the masochist
6. Inside the American prison film
7. Conclusion: waves of the future, echoes of the past
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

Cruel and Unusual

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      Publisher: Pluto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/01/2004
      ISBN13: 9780745315386, 978-0745315386
      ISBN10: 0745315380

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores who, and why, American society punishes, using examples from literature and film.

      Trade Review
      'This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey constructs a genealogy of cruelty' -- www.sirreadalot.org/issues/

      Table of Contents
      1. Introduction: birth of a prison nation
      2. The Scarlet Letter and the long forever of puritan punishment
      3. Reading the Rosenbergs: The Public Burning and The Book of Daniel
      4. Punishment, resistance and the African-American experience
      5. The whip, the noose, the cell and their lover: Melville the masochist
      6. Inside the American prison film
      7. Conclusion: waves of the future, echoes of the past
      Endnotes
      Bibliography
      Index

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