Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700

by Frances E. Dolan

Book Overview

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; and not in the master, husband, or father, but in the servant, wife, or mother. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why. Frances E. Dolan examines stories ranging from the profoundly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481341
• ISBN13: 9780801481345
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up