Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic ImaginationHarvard University Press, 1998 - 322 Seiten Confronting murder in the newspaper, on screen, and in sensational trials, we often feel the killer is fundamentally incomprehensible and morally alien. But this was not always the popular response to murder. In Murder Most Foul, 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. |
Inhalt
The Murderer as Common Sinner | 7 |
The Birth of Horror | 33 |
The Pornography of Violence | 60 |
The Construction of Murder as Mystery | 91 |
Murder in the Family Circle | 135 |
Murdering Medusa | 172 |
The Murderer as Mental Alien | 208 |
Epilogue | 241 |
Notes | 253 |
313 | |
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Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination Karen HALTTUNEN Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2009 |
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination Karen Halttunen Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1998 |
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