Capital Punishment in Popular Culture, Toys, Games, and Nursery Rhymes: Toying with Death
Ellen Tsagaris
Apr 2023 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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About this ebook
Art generally imitates life. This book highlights how the death penalty and murder have influenced toy making, pop culture, art, and music. It also addresses issues of equality and injustice involved in death sentencing. Many toys and dolls are illustrated and discussed, including those representing royalty, famous trials and murderers. Included are a brief guide for reading legal cases, an actual United States Supreme Court case, and a brief history of capital punishment theories, exercises and more. Librarians, historians, legal practitioners, museum curators, law professors, criminologists, doll and toy collectors and students alike will find this book useful. Given how often capital punishment appears in everyday life, general readers will find it interesting and engaging.
About the author
Ellen Tsagaris is a former Professor of Law, English and Spanish, and is currently Executive Director for the American Doll and Toy Museum. Dr Tsagaris is the author of The Subversion of Romance in the Novels of Barbara Pym; Thinking outside the Doll House, a Memoir; Sappho, I Should Have Listened; With Love from Tin Lizzie: A History of Metal Dolls; and A Bibliography of Doll and Toy Sources. She has contributed chapters to books on Anne Rice, Virginia Woolf, the Harlem Renaissance, and creative writing.
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