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The "Kentucky Tragedy" was early America's best known true crime story. In 1825, Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated Kentucky attorney general Solomon P. Sharp. The murder, trial, conviction, and execution of the killer, as well as the suicide of his wife, Anna Cooke Beauchamp―fascinated Americans. The episode became the basis of dozens of novels and plays composed by some of the country's most esteemed literary talents, among them Edgar Allan Poe and William Gilmore Simms. In Murder and Madness, Matthew G. Schoenbachler peels away two centuries of myth to provide a more accurate account of the murder. Schoenbachler also reveals how Jereboam and Anna Beauchamp shaped the meaning and memory of the event by manipulating romantic ideals at the heart of early American society. Concocting a story in which Solomon Sharp had seduced and abandoned Anna, the couple transformed a sordid murder―committed because the Beauchamps believed Sharp to be spreading a rumor that Anna had had an affair with a family slave―into a maudlin tale of feminine virtue assailed, honor asserted, and a young rebel's revenge. Murder and Madness reveals the true story behind the murder and demonstrates enduring influence of Romanticism in early America.
- Sales Rank: #3815476 in Books
- Brand: Brand: The University Press of Kentucky
- Published on: 2009-10-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.00" w x 6.13" l, 1.58 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 384 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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"While unravelling a real-life murder mystery, the author introduces us to social, political, legal, and cultural life in early Kentucky. This story of sex, race, and violence has been the basis of poetry, drama, and fiction in past years; today it could make a movie." --Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize winning author of WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT: THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA, 1815 - 1848.
'Schoenbachler does a masterful job deconstructing all three texts and tracing their literary sources. I've never seem anyone else do it better and he has uncovered new information about these three narratives from a wide variety of sources that challenges existing interpretations and corrects confusions.'--Christopher Waldrep, author of African Americans Confront Lynching : Strategies of Resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Era
About the Author
Matthew G. Schoenbachler, associate professor of history at the University of North Alabama, has writings in numerous publications.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Jereboam and Anna Beauchamp: Prototypes of the Modern Day Reality Television Star
By John Sparks
The "Kentucky Tragedy" --the 1825 alleged "honor killing" of Kentucky Attorney General Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp for the debauching of Beauchamp's wife, the former Anna Cooke, before their marriage, coupled with the subsequent suicide of Anna and judicial hanging of Jereboam, has long been a burr under the saddle of Kentucky and Southern historians. Most writers of both fiction and nonfiction who have attempted to relate and interpret the tale have concluded that the whole sordid affair is explainable and understandable under the horrible old Code of Southern Honor or "Fool's Code," as it was some time later nicknamed. In this book, Matthew Schoenbachler has done Kentucky history a great service by exploding the "honor" myth, not only by the exhaustive use of reference material contemporary to the murder and hanging, but with the keen application of interpretive principles. Herein he argues that Jereboam and Anna more or less let themselves be drawn into an imaginary world created by their respective literary influences, on Anna's part the writings of Mary Wollestonecraft and the English "seduction novels" of the late eighteenth century, and for Jereboam the anti-heroic protagonists of so many of Lord Byron's poems. Sharp's murder by Beauchamp was not so much the result of a desire for revenge on the part of Anna Beauchamp for the stillborn illegitimate child she had "laid to" the attorney as it was enraged retribution for the suggestion, most likely made by one of Sharp's political supporters, that Anna's child was bi-racial. And in the end, Beauchamp's written "Confession" was nowhere so near an honest and forthright account of events as it was a romantic literary creation of both Jereboam and Anna, based on a bizarre combination of Lord Byron and seduction novels and originally intended (or at least hoped by the couple, if only they could find a publisher in time) to provide a groundswell of popular support for an executive pardon for the condemned man. Modern readers cannot help thinking of the manipulation of truth regularly practiced in reality television shows even though the Beauchamps' escapades antedated television by a hundred and twenty years or so, and perhaps the greatest tragedy of all is humankind's tendency (seemingly throughout history) to try to manipulate truth in this fashion.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Not a myth but a true crime story that happened in 1825
By Jean C. Esposito
This is a story about the death of one of my ancestors. I have learned a lot about so many things besides just a person's name. It is difficult for me to write a review about this book without thinking about my ancestor and others who should not have died ... but did. I ordered the book because I have always said I wanted to know and understand the good, the bad & the ugly. This book helps me to learn more about and accept some unpleasant truths.
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