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Murder Most Foul : The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674038172
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Murder Most FoulDDC classification:
  • 364.15/23/0973
LOC classification:
  • HV6524
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Murderer as Common Sinner -- 2. The Birth of Horror -- 3. The Pornography of Violence -- 4. The Construction of Murder as Mystery -- 5. Murder in the Family Circle -- 6. Murdering Medusa -- 7. The Murderer as Mental Alien -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Murderer as Common Sinner -- 2. The Birth of Horror -- 3. The Pornography of Violence -- 4. The Construction of Murder as Mystery -- 5. Murder in the Family Circle -- 6. Murdering Medusa -- 7. The Murderer as Mental Alien -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.

Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public execution of murderers, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports.

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