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British Romanticism and Prison Reform Poison Ivy author of Word Perfect‘Rob DrummondIn eighteenth century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the centurywith the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishmentdid the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison, or penitentiary, meant to educate, rehabilitate, and spiritualize even hardened felons. This volume is the first to explore the