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Author Downing, Lisa.
Title The subject of murder [electronic resource] : gender, exceptionality, and the modern killer / Lisa Downing.
Publication Info Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.


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Descript viii, 241 p. : ill.
Contents Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century -- "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-Francois Lacenaire -- The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge -- The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after -- The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer -- "Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley -- "Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen -- Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos -- Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer -- By way of brief conclusion.
ISBN 9780226003689 (e-book)
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Author Downing, Lisa.
Subject Wuornos, Aileen.
Lacenaire, Pierre Francois, 1800-1836.
Hindley, Myra.
Lafarge, Marie, 1816-1852.
Nilsen, Dennis Andrew, 1945-
Jack, the Ripper.
Murderers -- Press coverage.
Women murderers -- Press coverage.
Murder in literature.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)
Descript viii, 241 p. : ill.
Contents Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century -- "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-Francois Lacenaire -- The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge -- The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after -- The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer -- "Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley -- "Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen -- Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos -- Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer -- By way of brief conclusion.
ISBN 9780226003689 (e-book)
Author Downing, Lisa.
Subject Wuornos, Aileen.
Lacenaire, Pierre Francois, 1800-1836.
Hindley, Myra.
Lafarge, Marie, 1816-1852.
Nilsen, Dennis Andrew, 1945-
Jack, the Ripper.
Murderers -- Press coverage.
Women murderers -- Press coverage.
Murder in literature.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)

Subject Wuornos, Aileen.
Lacenaire, Pierre Francois, 1800-1836.
Hindley, Myra.
Lafarge, Marie, 1816-1852.
Nilsen, Dennis Andrew, 1945-
Jack, the Ripper.
Murderers -- Press coverage.
Women murderers -- Press coverage.
Murder in literature.
Descript viii, 241 p. : ill.
Contents Murder and gender in the European nineteenth century -- "Real murderer and false poet": Pierre-Francois Lacenaire -- The "angel of arsenic": Marie Lafarge -- The beast in man: Jack and the rippers who came after -- The twentieth-century Anglo-American killer -- "Infanticidal" femininity: Myra Hindley -- "Monochrome man": Dennis Nilsen -- Serial killing and the dissident woman: Aileen Wuornos -- Kids who kill: defying the stereotype of the murderer -- By way of brief conclusion.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226003689 (e-book)
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