Judith Flanders

The Invention of Murder

How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

â 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.â Punch

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 131mm x 42mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780007248896
• ISBN-10: 000724889X
• Artikelnr.: 33194470

Autorenporträt

Judith Flanders is the author of critically acclaimed 'A Circle of Sisters' - a biography of Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynder and Louisa Baldwin - which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the bestselling 'The Victorian House - Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed' and the highly acclaimed 'Comsuming Passions'. She is a frequent contributor to the 'Daily Telegraph', the 'Guardian', the 'Evening Standard', and the 'Times Literary Supplement'. She lives in London.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Imagining Murder
2 Trial by Newspaper
3 Entertaining Murder
4 Policing Murder
5 Panic
6 Middle-Class Poisoners
7 Science, Technology and the Law
8 Violence
9 Modernity