Scaffold Fiction: Execution and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Before the age of sensibility, the literary scaffold was a device, albeit one with its own set of associations. Its purpose was to arrest plot, create tension, and render character. Fictional representations of execution typically did not question the place of capital punishment in society. They wer...
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Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20728 http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-832 |