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Murder Most Foul : The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780674038172 9783110442212 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |