Poisonous muse
Subtitle: the female prisoner and the framing of popular authorship in Jacksonian America
By: Sara L. Crosby
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781609384036; 9781609384043
Subjects: Politics and literature; Women murderers; Popular literature; Literature and society; Women poisoners; History and criticism; American literature; Public opinion; Women murderers in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Let us have poison . . ." women; title: Part 1. The romantic poisoner; title: The British lamia; title: The American lamia; title: Part 2. The democratic poisoner; title: The partisan poisoner; title: The humbug poisoner; title: Epilogue: The avenging poisoner.