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Author Halttunen, Karen, 1951-

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 322 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-312) and index.
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.
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Subject Murder -- United States -- History.
Murder.
United States.
History.
Murder -- United States -- Case studies.
Murder in literature.
Murder in literature.
Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Halttunen, Karen, 1951- Murder most foul. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998 9780674003842 (DLC) 98022624 (OCoLC)39101962
ISBN 9780674038172 (electronic book)
0674038177 (electronic book)
067458855X (alkaline paper)
9780674588554 (alkaline paper)
9780674003842 (paperback)
0674003845 (paperback)