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Crime and the Nation
Prison and Popular Fiction in Philadelphia. 1786-1800
Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
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...
Published July 11th 2002 by Routledge