Profiling Parricide in Nineteenth-Century America, 1852-1899
by
Phillip Chong Ho Shon
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles’ play, parricide – the killing of a parent or another close relative – has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide, for much of the twentieth...