Murder most foul : the killer and the American Gothic imagination / Karen Halttunen.

"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...

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Main Author: Halttunen, Karen, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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