On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts

Annotated Edition (Quirky Classics)

Thomas de Quincey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2016
Alma Classics (Verlag)
978-1-84749-685-0 (ISBN)

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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.

In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey’s innovative, idiosyncratic 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.

Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) was an English writer, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Quirky Classics
Verlagsort	Richmond
Sprache	englisch
Maße	110 x 150 mm
Gewicht	93 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
ISBN-10	1-84749-685-7 / 1847496857
ISBN-13	978-1-84749-685-0 / 9781847496850
Zustand	Neuware