Written in Blood : Fatal Attraction in Enlightenment Amsterdam /

"Pieter Spierenburg narrates two sensational murder cases among intimates in eighteenth-century Amsterdam. The cases recounted here both resulted from fatal attraction. They represented the darker side of the eighteenth-century revolution in love. This period witnessed great cultural changes af...

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Main Author: Spierenburg, Petrus Cornelis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2004.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • A big city in cultural flux: eighteenth-century Amsterdam
  • No one suspected he would end as a murderer
  • A new woman
  • How to dump a body when there are no cars?
  • Nathaniel's ascension
  • An unsuccessful career
  • An infamous infatuation
  • Honor, shame, and notoriety
  • Van Gogh's last blood.