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.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2012-06-26
Language: English
Number of Pages: 300
Edition: 1
Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..