Amy Louise Wood, 2022–23 | National Humanities Center

Amy Louise Wood (NHC Fellow, 2022–23)

Project Title

Sympathy for the Devil: The Criminal in the American Imagination, 1870–1940

Illinois State University

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Fellowship Work Summary, 2022–23

Amy Louise Wood drafted several chapters of her book manuscript, Sympathy for the Devil: The Criminal in the American Imagination, 1870–1930 (under contract, Oxford University Press). This work included reviewing thousands of pages of archival notes, as well as reading and annotating an extensive quantity of published primary sources procured through the NHC library.