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The Subject of Murder : Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer /

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen-a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart from the moral majority, a sovereign self who obeys o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Downing, Lisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Murder and Gender in the European Nineteenth Century
  • PART II. The Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Killer
  • By Way of Brief Conclusion . . .
  • Notes
  • Index