Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain : From Public Spectacle to Hidden Ritual (Paperback)

Introduction Chapter 1, ‘[T]he broken stave at the top of the ladder of England’s civilisation’: Representing the ending of public execution in 1868. James Gregory 　 PART 1: Going to See a Man Hanged: Chapter 2, ‘A practice which wounds only the living’: Publicly Punishing the Criminal Body in Nineteenth-Century Scotland. Rachel Bennett Chapter 3, ‘Every Loathsome Reptile Form of Vice and Crime’. Formulations of the Nineteenth-Century London Execution Crowd: Fears, Fictions and Realities. Matthew White Chapter 4, ‘How Murderers Die’: The Impact of the 1868 Abolition of Public Execution on Life-writing by Executioners. Katherine Ebury Chapter 5, ‘Stand in the place of those executed’: Interpreting Capital Punishment in UK Prison Museums. Rhiannon Pickin PART 2: ‘One had better narrate the circumstances as they occurred’ Chapter 6, ‘[…] were sensation our object, it would not be difficult to cull from the Newgate Calendar’: Periodical Journalism and Distaste for Public Executions, c. 1830-1870. Samuel Saunders Chapter 7, George Vass: the making and un-making of a criminal monster. Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Couch Chapter 8, The ‘Hermetically sealed’ Prison: Witnessing Executions in the North East of England 1868-1878.Patrick Low Chapter 9, The only consolation is that the criminal is not a Welshman: The foreign-born men hanged in Wales, 1840-1900. Stephanie Emma Brown Index