True Crime Narratives: An Annotated Bibliography

by Ben Harrison

True Crime Narratives takes the reader on an exploration of this genre, from the mid-nineteenth century through 1993. The introduction gives the history of the genre from 15th- and 16th-century English ballads to later sensationalist broadsheets that reported on the bloody crimes of the day. Harrison compares the aesthetic approach of reports which played upon the reader's interest in the intellectual aspects of the crime to the contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810832607
• ISBN13: 9780810832602
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 784 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.6" x 8.8"