The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
The Invention of Murder In this exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders explores some of the most gripping cases that fascinated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and...
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The Invention of Murder In this exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders explores some of the most gripping cases that fascinated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous--transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera--even into pupp... Full description
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781250024879 (1250024870)
ASIN: 1250024870
Publish date: 2013-07-23
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Book: The Invention of Murder Author: Judith Flanders Genre: Nonfiction/Mystery/History of Murder/Victorian England Summary: Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, b...
Book: The Invention of Murder Author: Judith Flanders Genre: Nonfiction/Mystery/History of Murder/Victorian England Summary: Murder in the nineteenth century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, b...
The title "The Invention of Murder" is a little exaggerated - Judith Flanders isn't arguing that there were no murders before the 19th century, or anything like that. Instead, she relates (in a great deal of detail) how obsessed the average inhabitant of Victorian Britain was with murders safely re...
This is one of those books that you read that gives you lists of more books to read. Flanders’ book is an analysis of how Victorian Society viewed murdered, as mostly seen in the literature (both high and low) of the time as well as in the media. She traces not only the rimes but t...
Very dry. I tried to read the first 30 pages and got bored. I tried to skim the next 50 pages and got even more bored. I was excited to read this book but it was big let-down. Other books that are similar (but better) are The Beautiful Cigar Girl by Daniel Stashower, and The Suspicions of Mr. Wh...
8 years ago
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