Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination

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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 the 19th century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred, to the true crime literature and tabloid reporting of the late 1990s.

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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 the 19th century, when secular and sensational accounts replaced the sacred, to the true crime literature and tabloid reporting of the late 1990s.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Sep 2000
ISBN 10: 0674003845
ISBN 13: 9780674003842