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Murder Most Foul : The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination Paperback - 2000
by Karen Halttunen
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- Title Murder Most Foul : The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
- Author Karen Halttunen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 370
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvard University Press, Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 2000
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0674003845I3N00
- ISBN 9780674003842 / 0674003845
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.73 x 5.67 x 0.96 in (22.17 x 14.40 x 2.44 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Murder - United States, Murder in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98022624
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
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Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at public executions, through the nineteenth century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the religious treatment of the crime, to today's fascination with socio-psychological anatomies of murder. Halttunen's penetrating insight into her extraordinary treasure trove of popular crime literature reveals how our modern stories have failed to make sense of the killer and how that failure has constrained our understanding and treatment of criminality today.