Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
by Karen Halttunen
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In this text, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public executions, through to the true crime literature and tabloid reporting of the late 1990's.Tags
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Karen Halttunen is Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and former president of the American Studies Association. She is the author of Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (1986) and Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic show more Imagination (2000). show less
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- 364.15 — Social sciences Social problems and social services Criminology Criminal offenses Offenses against the person
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- HV6524 .H28 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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