Belle Gunness: The Lady Bluebeard - Hardcover

Langlois, Janet L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253311578 ISBN 13: 9780253311573

Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS), 1985

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Book by Langlois Janet L

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The Guinness Book of World Records has in twelve editions listed Belle Gunness under the category "Most Prolific Murderers." She earned the epithet the Lady Bluebeard because she is believed to have killed as many as twenty spouses. She settled on a farm on the outskirts of LaPorte, Indiana, in 1901. Over the next seven years it is believed that she killed a husband, children, and an indeterminate number of would-be suitors who answered her matrimonial advertisements. Through symbolic analysis of the folk art about the murderess-anecdotes, personal-experience stories, legends, ballads, and plays and skits-Langlois discovers an integrated symbol system through which the community comes to various and contradictory conclusions about the deviant woman, deviancy in general, and social changes.

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• Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0253311578
• ISBN 13: 9780253311573
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192