| On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts Contributor(s): Quincey, Thomas de (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847496857 ISBN-13: 9781847496850 Publisher: Alma Books OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Humor | Form - Essays - Humor | Form - Parodies |
| Dewey: 824.808 |
| Series: Quirky Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.81" H x 5.67" W x 8.58" (0.48 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, aesthetic and literary criticism, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial-killer John Williams. De Quincey's seminal 1827 work was greatly influential on such writers as Poe, Baudelaire and Borges, and the trace of its impact can still be found today in modern satire, black humour and crime and detective fiction. |