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Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The
1780s and ’90s witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind of prison. The world’s first penitentiary-style prison opened at
Philadelphia in 1790. At the same time jurists, reformers and fiction writers found new uses for the criminal. Suddenly, he was fascinating, he was edifying to the community, he was worth
displaying and reforming. In a young nation whose very origins were perceived as criminal, yet clearly necessary and ultimately redeemable, crime emerged as an essential-and
controversial-component of national identity. Crime and the Nation explores the nature of that identity, and the origins of America’s unique and enduring love affair with crime
and crime fiction.
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