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Author_Daniel A. Cohen
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crime ballads and broadsides
criminal confessions in print
cultural mediation of violence
cultural roots of crime reporting
early American crime literature
early American docudrama traditions
early courtroom reportage
early modern narrative experimentation
early newspaper crime features
early North American crime genres
emergence of pluralistic readerships
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evolution of public punishment stories
execution-day cultural practices
historical crime publishing markets
historical sources for criminal narratives
history of sensational media
intersections of religion and print
lay authors in early publishing
literary afterlives of real crimes
literary responses to wrongdoing
mass audience formation
narrative competition with clergy
narrative politics of crime
New England print culture
origins of true-crime fascination
popular criminal narratives
popular engagement with justice themes
popular justice narratives
pre-Victorian sensationalism
print culture and social anxiety
print-based moral instruction
proto-journalistic crime accounts
proto-mass media development
public appetite for transgression tales
public ritual and narrative form
readership shifts in early America
secularization of public storytelling
shifting religious influence in print
shifts in public moral discourse
story formats shaping public opinion
storytelling in early legal culture
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transformation of moral authority
transformation of punitive spectacle
vernacular justice narratives
vernacular press traditions
Product details
- ISBN 9781558495296
- Weight: 505g
- Dimensions: 160 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2006
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this innovative study, Daniel A. Cohen explores a major cultural shift embodied in hundreds of early New England crime publications. Tracing the declining authority of Puritan ministers, he shows how the arbiters of an increasingly pluralistic literary marketplace gradually supplanted pious execution sermons with last-speech broadsides, gallows verses, criminal autobiographies, trial reports, newspaper stories, and romantic docudramas. ""Pillars of Salt, Monuments of Grace"" probes the forgotten origins of our modern mass media's pre-occupation with crime and punishment.
DANIEL A. COHEN is associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University.
