Murder most foul
Subtitle: the killer and the American Gothic imagination
By: Karen Halttunen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780674588554; 9780674003842
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); Nouvelles noires (Genre littéraire); Cas, Études de; Murder; Meurtre; Meurtre dans la littérature; Histoire; Murder in literature; Case studies; History
Description: "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 religious treatment of the crime as the manifestation of sinful human nature, to today's fascination with socio-psychological anatomies of murder."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-312) and index.