Dangerous Familiars Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700 |
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| Author:
| Dolan, Frances E. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8014-8134-5 |
| Publication Date: | May 1994 |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $38.95 |
Book Description:
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Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.
Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.