The gallows speech: a lost genre

• Bower Aly ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Oregon
• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 34, nº 3, 1968, págs. 204-213
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Tragedy and grisly humor are mixed in these reports of speech‐making on the gallows or under the lyncher's noose in nineteenth‐century America. Would mass attendance at state executions by more sophisticated means tend to hasten the exit of capital punishment from our society?