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The subject of murder : gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downing, Lisa
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Wuornos, Aileen.
Lacenaire, Pierre François, > 1800-1836.
Hindley, Myra.
Lafarge, Marie, > 1816-1852.
Nilsen, Dennis Andrew, > 1945-
Jack, > the Ripper.
Murderers > Press coverage.
Women murderers > Press coverage.
Murder in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.