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On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts

On Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts

de Quincey, Thomas

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Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1534926836
ISBN13: 9781534926837
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 27 2016
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts is an essay by Thomas De Quincey first published in 1827 in Blackwood's Magazine. The essay is a fictional, satirical account of an address made to a gentleman's club concerning the aesthetic appreciation of murder. It focuses particularly on a series of murders allegedly committed in 1811 by John Williams in the neighborhood of Ratcliffe Highway, London. The essay was enthusiastically received and led to numerous sequels, including A Second Paper on Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts in 1839 and a Postscript in 1854. These essays have exerted a strong influence on subsequent literary representations of crime and were lauded by such critics as G. K. Chesterton, Wyndham Lewis and George Orwell. De Quincey also refers to the Williams murders in his On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth.

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