SOURCE: "Historical Violence, Censorship, and the Serial Killer: The Case of American Psycho," in Diacritics, Vol. 27, No. 2, Summer, 1997, pp. 44-58.
In the following essay, Freccero discusses reactions to American Psycho and explores the significance of the novel's violence.
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