{"product_id":"homicide-in-american-fiction-1798-1860-david-brion-davis-9781501726200","title":"Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values","description":"\u003cp\u003eHomicide has many social and psychological implications that vary from culture to culture and which change as people accept new ideas concerning guilt, responsibility, and the causes of crime. A study of attitudes toward homicide is therefore a method of examining social values in a specific setting. \u003ci\u003eHomicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to contrast psychological assumptions of imaginative writers with certain social and intellectual currents in an attempt to integrate social attitudes toward such diverse subjects as human evil, moral responsibility, criminal insanity, social causes of crime, dueling, lynching, the \"unwritten law\" of a husband's revenge, and capital punishment. In addition to works of literary distinction by Cooper, Hawthorne, Irving, and Poe, among others, Davis considers a large body of cheap popular fiction generally ignored in previous studies of the literature of this period. This is an engrossing study of fiction as a reflection of and a commentary on social problems and as an influence shaping general beliefs and opinions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Brion Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150172620X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501726200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.82d","brand":"David Brion Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44058324173055,"sku":"9781501726200","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7345c8a1-fce4-47a7-b603-ae6d59632783.jpg?v=1685051924","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/homicide-in-american-fiction-1798-1860-david-brion-davis-9781501726200","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}