Hardcover • 2011 • English

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

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By Judith Flanders

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About the book

"We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it." Punch Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment began and became ubiquitous - transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera - even into puppet shows and performing dog-acts. In this meticulously researched and compelling book, Judith Fland...Show more

Cultural studies

Crime and criminology

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9780007248889

Publisher

HarperPress

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Invention of Murder

Format

Hardcover

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