Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination

ISBN-10: 0674038177
ISBN-13: 9780674038172
Series: Murder Most Foul
Category: History
Pages: 370
Language: English
Published: 2009-06-30
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Author: Karen Halttunen

Description

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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Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
- 1998
- 322 pages
- Paperback
- Harvard University Press
Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
- 1998
- 322 pages
- Paperback
- Harvard University Press
Murder Most Foul: True Crime Stories of Murder and Mayhem
- 2015-01-10
- 245 pages
- Ebook
- Bleak House Publishing, Inc.
Murder Most Foul: Strangled, poisoned and dismembered in Singapore
- 2013-04-10
- 184 pages
- Ebook
- Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

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