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Lizzie Borden on Trial : Murder, Ethnicity, and Gender /

"This is a retelling of the famous story of Lizzie Borden, charged with killing her father and stepmother with "forty whacks" of a hatchet. Conforti describes the crime, the investigation, and the trial that resulted in her acquittal. He places the trial in the context of the social a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Conforti, Joseph A. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2015]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Setting: The Bordens of Fall River
  • 2. The Bordens of Second Street
  • 3. The Crime Heard 'round the Country and Beyond
  • 4. The Investigation
  • 5. Arrest
  • 6. "Probably Guilty"
  • 7. Lizzie's Long Wait
  • 8. Prosecuting Lizzie
  • 9. The Court's Heavy Hand
  • 10. Defending Lizzie
  • 11. Verdict.