Victorian Studies in Scarlet: Murders and Manners in the Age of Victoria Altick Richard D.Paperback
Victorian Studies in Scarlet: Murders and Manners in the Age of Victoria Altick Richard D.Paperback In the first chapters, Mr. The remainder of the book is constructed around classic murder cases…
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Victorian Studies in Scarlet: Murders and Manners in the Age of Victoria Altick Richard D.Paperback
In the first chapters, Mr. The remainder of the book is constructed around classic murder cases that afford a vivid perspective on the way people lived--and died--in the Age of Victoria.From the beginning of the age, homicide was a national entertainment. Altick examines the Victorian delight in murder as a social phenomenon.
Real-life murders were quickly adapted for the gaslight melodrama and the bestselling novels of the "Newgate" and "sensation" schools. Penny broadsheets hawked in the streets highlighted the most gruesome features of crimes; newspapers recounted the most minute details, from the discovery of the body to the execution of the criminal. Murder scenes and celebrities were the most popular exhibits at Madame Tussaud's waxworks and in the touring peepshows and marionette entertainments.Murder, in fact, was a crimson thread running through the whole