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The Art of the English Murder

Lucy Worsley

出版	Pegasus Crime, 2014
主題	Art / Subjects & Themes / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Social HistoryLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Mystery & DetectiveLiterary Criticism / DramaSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / European StudiesSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Media StudiesTrue Crime / GeneralTrue Crime / Murder / General
ISBN	16059890969781605989099
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JZoTrgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Murder -- a dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy. And a very strange obsession. But where did this fixation develop? And what does it tell us about ourselves? In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early nineteenth century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism. At a point during the birth of modern England, murder entered the popular psyche, and it's been a part of us ever since.