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"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.
- Thomas De Quincey
- 1827
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. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable to attempts of this nature. Mr.
Feb 26, 2015 · 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...
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 ...
Thomas De Quincey's three papers "On Murder Con- and through the trope of murder as a fine art, he anticipates sidered as One of the Fine Arts"— two published in Black- Max Nordau's seminal fin de siècle exploration of decadence,
Dec 8, 2020 · In Thomas de Quincey's 'On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts', the author explores the gruesome topic of murder through a unique lens, analyzing it not as a mere act of violence...
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Thomas de Quincy’s satirical essay “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” first appeared in 1827. It is a fictional account of an address made to a gentleman’s club on the aesthetic …
