Murder Most Foul
The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8302470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Korobkin, Laura Hanft Korobkin (corresponding author), Karen Halttunen |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Legal History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9319 • E-ISSN: 2161-797X |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/846154 |
| OpenAlex | W2097663265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
Introduction 1. The Murderer as Common Sinner 2. The Birth of Horror 3. The Pornography of Violence 4. The Construction of Murder as Mystery 5. Murder in the Family Circle 6. Murdering Medusa 7. The Murderer as Mental Alien Epilogue Notes Index
Art · Criminology · Sociology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Modern American Literature Studies
American Dolorologies
Pauline Johnson's “As It Was in the Beginning” and Drew Hayden Taylor's The Night Wanderer
Between dishonor and death
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
"The Shadow of Law"
The Native American Tradition
"Crimes which startle and horrify"
Masculinities, Intimate Femicide and The Death Penalty in Australia, 1890-1920
Public and Private Violence
From Anger to Jealousy
Fictional Feeling
Indelicate Exposure”
The Knowing of Monstrosities
Religion, "Moral Insanity," and Psychology in Nineteenth-Century America
Singing Crimes, Rhyming News
Liberalism’s Incestuous Subject
Patriarchal Policing of Sex in the Early United States
History in Discursive Limbo
The ocean and the urban
Raw, Quivering Flesh’
Cincinnati’s Infernal Regions Exhibit and the Waning of Calvinist Authority
Two Suspicious Persons
Crime behind the glass
Mythos and Mental Illness
Sex in the Witness Stand
Missing and Murdered Women
Race, Revolution, and the Sublime
Lethal Theatre
Delicious Horrors
All Things Considered
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |