The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780007248896 (000724889X)
ASIN: 000724889X
Publish date: 2011-09-01
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Pages no: 256
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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