On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Author(s): Thomas De Quincey
In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idio-syncratic 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.
General Information
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- : Alma Books Ltd
- : Alma Classics
- : 0.093
- : 30 November 2016
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 January 2017
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Thomas De Quincey
- : Paperback
- : 1707
- : en
- : 808
- : 128
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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English writer, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.