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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › On_Murder_Considered_asOn Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts - Wikipedia

    On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts. " On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts " are a trilogy of essays by Thomas De Quincey begun in 1827. The essays are a satirical account of a gentleman's club that celebrates homicide from an aesthetic perspective. The Ratcliff Highway murders committed by John Williams in 1811 are a keystone ...

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  2. www.goodreads.com › book › showOn Murder: Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Goodreads

    May 7, 2013 · The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives.

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  3. caitlinduffy.hcommons.org › 2018/06/04 › on-murderOn Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts (1827)

    Jun 4, 2018 · Thomas De Quincey’s 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. According to its Wikipedia page, the essay was “enthusiastically received,” causing De ...

  4. www.hasta-standrews.com › features › 2018/4/11On Murder, Considered as Represented in the Fine Arts

    Apr 11, 2018 · In his satirical take on Kantian ethics and aesthetics, On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts, 1827, Thomas de Quincey lauded a club of discerning gentlemen who took it upon themselves to critique the aesthetic and artistic merits of notable murders, rating originality, taste, and bravura, amongst other things. The book lampooned Immanuel Kant’s understanding of the faculty of ...

  5. www.goodreads.com › book › showOn Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Goodreads

    Thomas de Quincey’s 1827 essay, On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, is a satirical take on the English public’s fascination with gory murder, inspired by the 1811 Ratcliff Highway killings. De Quincey imagines a sophisticated, but secret, group of gentlemen who meet to discuss the aesthetics of murder as some are wont to do with a ...

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  6. supervert.com › elibrary › thomas-de-quinceyOn Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts - Supervert

    In fact, he had a theory with regard to the French Revolution, as having been the great cause of degeneration in murder. "Very soon, sir," he used to say, "men will have lost the art of killing poultry: the very rudiments of the art will have perished!" In the year 1811 he retired from general society.

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    Feb 26, 2015 · 'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'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 ...

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