The subject of murder
Subtitle: gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer
By: Lisa Downing
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226003405; 9780226003542; 9780226003689
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Murder in literature; Murderers; Women murderers; Press coverage
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century; title: "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-François Lacenaire; title: The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge; title: The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after; title: The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer; title: "Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley; title: "Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen; title: Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos; title: Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer; title: By way of brief conclusion.