1st Edition
Women and Murder in Early Modern News Pamphlets and Broadside Ballads, 1573-1697 Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 7
By Randall Martin
Copyright 2005
632 Pages
by
Routledge
632 Pages
by
Routledge
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As voyeuristic and prurient as today's tabloid newspapers, early modern crime pamphlets and broadside ballads about women murderers tell of furtive love affairs and domestic poisonings, of battered wives who kill their abusive husbands, and of troubled mothers who murder their children. On first acquaintance, many pamphlets leave an impression of shallow sensationalism yoked to idealised... Read more
Contents: Preface by the general editors; Introductory note; 46 writings.
Biography
Randall Martin is at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
