List of Illustrations Acknowledgmets Introduction 1. The Assassin and Her Revenge: A Tale of Moral Heroism and Female Self-Fashioning in an Age of Mass Communication 2. Media Sensation: Public Justice and the Sympathy of an Urban Audience 3. Highbrow Ambivalence: Fear of the Masses and Feminized Sentiment 4. The Trial: Courtroom Spectacle and Ethical Sentiment in the Rule of Law 5. A State Pardon: Sanctioned Violence under Nationalist Rule 6. Beyond the 1930s: From Wartime Patriotism to Counter-Revolutionary Sentiment Conclusion
Eugenia Lean is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
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