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Poisonous muse : the female prisoner and the framing of popular authorship in Jacksonian America
- Author / Creator
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- Sara L. Crosby
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781609384043, 1609384040, 1609384040, 9781609384036, 1609384032
- OCLC
- ocn944302041
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: "Let us have poison . . ." women -- Part 1. The romantic poisoner -- The British lamia -- The American lamia -- Part 2. The democratic poisoner -- The partisan poisoner -- The humbug poisoner -- Epilogue: The avenging poisoner
Subjects
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Popular literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
- Women murderers -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century.
- Women murderers in literature.
- Women poisoners -- United States.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.