Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination - Karen Halttunen - Books - Harvard University Press - 9780674003842 - September 1, 2000
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Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination


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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 sacred treatment of the crime, to today's true crime literature and tabloid reports.


338 pages, 33 halftones

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 1, 2000
ISBN13 9780674003842
Publishers Harvard University Press
Pages 338
Dimensions 153 × 226 × 20 mm   ·   496 g
Language English  

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