The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer

by Lisa Downing

Book Overview

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen--a special individual, like an artist or a genius, who exists apart from the moral majority, a sovereign self who obeys only the destructive urge, sometimes even commanding cult followings. In contemporary culture, we continue to believe that there is something different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022600354X
• ISBN13: 9780226003542
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"