Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Автор:Randall Martin Год: 2012 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 300 ISBN: 0415542561 This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are illuminated in relation to changing legal, religious, and political contexts, as well as the dynamic growth of commercial crime-news and readership.