Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century...

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Dr James Gregory (Plymouth University, UK)

Victorians Against the Gallows

Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain

Dr James Gregory (Plymouth University, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
28 May 2020

By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding the question of capital punishment. Unease was expressed in various forms, including efforts at outright abolition. Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory here examines abolitionist strategies, leaders and personnel. He locates the 'gallows question' in an imperial context and explores the ways in which debates about the gallows and abolition featured in literature, from poetry to 'novels of purpose' and popular romances of the underworld. He places the abolitionist movement within the wider Victorian worlds of philanthropy, religious orthodoxy and social morality in a study which will be essential reading for students and researchers of Victorian history.

By: Dr James Gregory (Plymouth University UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 449g
ISBN: 9781350163492
ISBN 10: 135016349X
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 28 May 2020
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. The Rise and Decline of a Movement 2. Capital Punishment as an Imperial Problem 3. Personnel of the S.A.C.P. 4. Abolitionism in Operation 5. The Abolitionists and Parliament 6. The Mental World of Abolitionism 7. Capital Sentences 8. Abolitionism; an Appraisal Conclusion

James Gregory is Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Bradford. He is the author of Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain (I.B.Tauris, 2007) and Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists: The Cowper-Temples and High Politics in Victorian England (I.B.Tauris, 2009).