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 ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Temas:
Wuornos, Aileen.
Lacenaire, Pierre François, > 1800-1836.
Hindley, Myra.
Lafarge, Marie, > 1816-1852.
Nilsen, Dennis Andrew, > 1945-2018.
Jack, > the Ripper.
Hindley, Myra
Jack, > the Ripper
Lacenaire, Pierre François, > 1800-1836
Lafarge, Marie, > 1816-1852
Nilsen, Dennis Andrew, > 1945-2018
Wuornos, Aileen
Murderers > Press coverage.
Women murderers > Press coverage.
Murder in literature.
Meurtriers > Couverture de presse.
Meurtrières > Couverture de presse.
Meurtre dans la littérature.
TRUE CRIME > Murder > General.
Murder in literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century
  • "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-François Lacenaire
  • The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge
  • The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after
  • The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer
  • "Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley
  • "Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen
  • Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos
  • Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer
  • By way of brief conclusion.

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