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Title: The Invention of Murder
Author: Judith Flanders
Narrator: Janice McKenzie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-20-11
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Genres: History, European
Summary:
A deeply engaging and completely original book about nineteenth-century Britains fascination with good quality murder.
Murder in nineteenth-century Britain was ubiquitous not necessarily in quantity but in quality. This was the era of penny-bloods, early crime fiction and melodramas for the masses. This was a time when murder and entertainment were firmly entwined.
In this meticulously researched and compelling book, Judith Flanders, author of Consuming Passions, takes us back in time to explore some of the most gripping, gruesome and mind-boggling murders of the nineteenth-century. Covering the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd and Jack the Ripper, as well as the lesser known but equally shocking acts of Burke and Hare, and Thurtell and Hunt, Flanders looks at how murder was regarded by the wider British population and how it became a form of popular entertainment.
Filled to the brim with rich source material ranging from studies of plays, novels and contemporary newspaper articles, A Social History of Murder brings to life a neglected dimension of British social history in a completely new and exciting way.
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