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gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer

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University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Pages
256

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Subjects
Murder in literature, Murderers, Women murderers, Press coverage, Lafarge, marie, 1816-1852, Jack, the ripper, Hindley, myra, 1942-2002, Crime in literature, True crime, Murder
People
Dennis Andrew Nilsen (1945-), Myra Hindley, Jack the Ripper, Marie Lafarge (1816-1852), Pierre François Lacenaire (1800-1836), Aileen Wuornos
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2013, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century
"Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-François Lacenaire
The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge
The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after
The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer
"Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley
"Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen
Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos
Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer
By way of brief conclusion.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Copyright Date
2013

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
364.152/3
Library of Congress
HV6513 .D685 2013, HV6513.D685 2013

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Pagination
pages.
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25361907M
ISBN 13
9780226003405, 9780226003542, 9780226003689
LCCN
2012024191

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