Murder most foul the killer and the American Gothic imagination

Halttunen, Karen 1951- (Author).

Summary: "In Murder Most Foul, 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 religious treatment of the crime as the manifestation of sinful human nature, to today's fascination with socio-psychological anatomies of murder."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0674003845 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780674003842 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780674588554 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 067458855X (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0674038177 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780674038172 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 322 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

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General Note:	Multi-User CatBulkString:may.13 CatBulkString:may.17.13
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-312) and index.
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