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, ...
The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination Karen Halttunen. In the gray of the morning on December 10 , 1782 , he awakened the maid , who shared a room with the children , told her that Mrs. Beadle was ill , and sent her off with a ...
See also Murray M. Schwartz and Coppe ́lia Kahn, eds. Representing Shakespeare: New Psychoanalytic Essays (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980), William Beatty Warner, Chance and the Text of Experience: Freud, Nietzsche, ...
... 123 Kean, Edmund 108, 109, 113–14, 118, 137, 201 Keegan, Andrew 191 Keeling, Captain 25 Keene, Thomas W. 201 Keightley, Thomas 135 Keith-Johnston, Colin 149 Kemble, Charles 112, 114 Kemble, Fanny 114 Kemble, John Philip 59, 108–13, ...
... of Hamlet from a Norwegian perspective. Feminist dramatizations based on the sad tale of Ophelia include Jean Betts's Ophelia Thinks Harder (1993), Byrony Lavery's Ophelia (1997), Jurgen Vsych's Ophelia Learns to 210 NOTES TO PAGE 194.
Judge Poole wrote in his decision, however, that the death penalty should not apply to persons who have already escaped and commit murder; it doesn't necessarily apply to a person who commits murder while committing second-degree escape ...
Paul Chambers re-investigates this famous case, and demonstrates conclusively who the murderer really was.
Murder Most Foul: A Collection of Great Crime Stories
Mystery Writers of America is proud to present this volume in the Classics series, featuring fourteen stories by acclaimed writers, all exploring the terrible crime of murder.
Murder Most Foul: Diego Martin, 10th May 1870
Murder Most Foul: Strangled, poisoned and dismembered in Singapore
He is in as much conflict with himself as that other Shakespearean murderer, Macbeth. ... corrupted currents of this world Ofiense's guided hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out 56 Murder Most Foul.
She also said that she did not recall telling the Grand Jury that she had heard of the murders on Tuesday. Rather, she had first heard of it on the next Thursday (apparently the first ... findfind thethe defendant 41 Murder Most Foul.
“Until the six of us returned from shopping,” Mim said, “there was no ques— tion this was the most wonderful trip any of us ever ... One of our group arrested and beaten, his companion missing, possibly murdered. ... 64 Murder Most Foul.
Murder Most Foul
This book presents a tapestry of social history of Melaka rich in detail as never before, using the court records from the 1780s through to the 1820s serendipitously preserved. Through...
Murder Most Foul
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...
What could happen if their paths crossed and they encountered murder and mayhem? This is what happens when Maggie takes on the job of being the interim pastor of the Community Church of Andersonville.