Paperback • 2017 • English • 1. edition

On murder considered as one of the fine arts

Name: On murder considered as one of the fine arts
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ISBN: 9781847496850

By Thomas De Quincey

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In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams.De Quincey's seminal 1827 work was greatly influential on such writers as Poe, Baudelaire and Borges, and the trace of its impact can still be found today in modern satire, black humour and crim...Show more

Literary essays

Classic fiction: general and literary

Humour

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9781847496850

Publisher

Alma Classics

Published year

2017

Language

English

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On murder considered as one of the fine arts

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Paperback

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