Tag-Archiv: Burke

“The representation of crime through mediated forms has a long human history”

Laura Huey:  Crime behind the glass: Exploring the sublime in crime at the Vienna Kriminalmuseum. In: Theoretical Criminology, November 2011, 15: 381-399, here p. 384. Abstract: “Scholars have noted an ever-increasing growth in the number of crime-themed leisure and tourism venues. Within this article I examine one such site: the Vienna Kriminalmuseum. An analysis of [...]

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Burke, Hare, Jack the Ripper et al.

Judith Flanders: The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime. London: HarperPress 2011. Verlagsanzeige: “Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment began and became ubiquitous – transformed into novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and melodrama and opera – even [...]

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