TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halttunen,Karen
TI  - Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
SN  - 9780674038172
AV  - HV6524 
U1  - 364.15/23/0973 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Gothic revival (Literature)-United States
KW  - Murder in literature
KW  - Murder-United States-Case studies
KW  - Murder-United States-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -