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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1998
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Contents --   |t Illustrations --   |t Introduction --   |t 1 The Murderer as Common Sinner --   |t 2 The Birth of Horror --   |t 3 The Pornography of Violence --   |t 4 The Construction of Murder as Mystery --   |t 5 Murder in the Family Circle --   |t 6 Murdering Medusa --   |t 7 The Murderer as Mental Alien --   |t Epilogue --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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