Dangerous Familiars: Representations of Domestic Crime in England, 1550-1700
Looking back at images of violence in the popular culture of early modern England, we find that the specter of the murderer loomed most vividly not in the stranger, but in the familiar. A gripping exploration of seventeenth-century accounts of domestic murder in fact and fiction, this book is the first to ask why.
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9781501707278, 9780801429019, 1501707272, 0801429013
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