Victorian Studies in Scarlet – Murders and Manners in the Age of Victoria
Autor Richard D. Alticken Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mar 2024
From the beginning of the age, homicide was a national entertainment. Penny broadsheets hawked in the streets highlighted the most gruesome features of crimes; newspapers recounted the most minute details, from the discovery of the body to the execution of the criminal. Real-life murders were quickly adapted for the gaslight melodrama and the bestselling novels of the "Newgate" and "sensation" schools. Murder scenes and celebrities were the most popular exhibits at Madame Tussaud's waxworks and in the touring peepshows and marionette entertainments.
Murder, in fact, was a crimson thread running through the whole fabric of Victorian life. By tracing this thread in "not too solemn a spirit," Mr. Altick has written a book that will delight and inform all who are interested in social history, as well as that great number who relish true murder stories.
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ISBN-13: 9780393336245
ISBN-10: 0393336247
Pagini: 356
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-10: 0393336247
Pagini: 356
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: W. W. Norton & Company