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      • " 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.
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  2. 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.

    • Thomas De Quincey
    • 1827
  3. Nov 9, 2020 · They profess to be curious in homicide; amateurs and dilettanti in the various modes of bloodshed; and, in short, Murder-Fanciers. Every fresh atrocity of that class, which the police annals of Europe bring up, they meet and criticise as they would a picture, statue, or other work of art.

  4. Jun 4, 2018 · Thomas De Quinceys essay “On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts” was first published in 1827 in Blackwood’s Magazine. It is a satirical and fictional account of an address made to a gentleman’s club focused on murder’s aesthetic value.

  5. Mar 8, 2022 · On murder considered as one of the fine arts. by. De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859. Publication date. 2009. Topics. Murder -- England -- History, Murder in literature. Publisher. Richmond, Surrey [England] : Oneworld Classics.

  6. To conceive the idea of a secret murder on private account as enclosed within a little parenthesis on a vast stage of public battle-carnage is like Hamlet's subtle device of a tragedy within a tragedy. Indeed, all of these assassinations may be studied with profit by the advanced connoisseur.

  7. In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him'.

  8. Oct 30, 2017 · A man is not bound to put his eyes, ears, and understanding into his breeches pocket when he meets with a murder. If he is not in a downright comatose state, I suppose he must see that one murder is better or worse than another in point of good taste.

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