The invention of murder: how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime
Flanders, Judith
The invention of murder: how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime - HarperPress 2011 - xvii, 556 p., [16] p. of plates
Includes bibliographical references and index
This text is about 19th-century Britain's fascination with good quality murder. Murder during this period was ubiquitous - not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. It was a time when murder and entertainment were firmly entwined.
9780007248889 0007248881
100=NOTNACO
Murder--History--Great Britain--19th century
Murder in mass media
364.1523 FLA
The invention of murder: how the Victorians revelled in death and detection and created modern crime - HarperPress 2011 - xvii, 556 p., [16] p. of plates
Includes bibliographical references and index
This text is about 19th-century Britain's fascination with good quality murder. Murder during this period was ubiquitous - not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. It was a time when murder and entertainment were firmly entwined.
9780007248889 0007248881
100=NOTNACO
Murder--History--Great Britain--19th century
Murder in mass media
364.1523 FLA