Name: The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime (en Inglés)
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Author: Flanders, Judith
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Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Judith Flanders

Editorial

St. Martin's Griffin

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

576

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 13.7 x 3.9 cm

Peso

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781250048530

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Categorías

Reino unido
Época victoriana - 1837-1901
Asesinatos y homicidas en serie reales
Historia de europa
Historia social y cultural

The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime (en Inglés)

Judith Flanders (Autor) · St. Martin's Griffin · Tapa Blanda

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wonderful... [Flanders] shines in her readings of literary novels containing criminal and detective elements, such as Oliver Twist, Mary Barton and Tess of the D'Urbervilles, but can be sharp and very funny about the vagaries of melodramatic and sensational plotting. -Wall Street Journal In this fascinating exploration of murder in the nineteenth century, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction Murder in Britain 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 puppet shows and performing dog-acts. Detective fiction and England's new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other--the pioneers of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P.D. James and Patricia Cornwell. In this fascinating book, Judith Flanders retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder--both famous and obscure--from the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in London's East End; Burke and Hare and their bodysnatching business in Edinburgh; and Greenacre, who transported his dismembered fiancée around town by omnibus. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, and poisoners, the mad, the bad and the dangerous to know, The Invention of Murder is both a gripping tale of crime and punishment, and history at its most readable.