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edocfu_9958354126502883
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1 online resource(xii,354p.) :
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illustrations.
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Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110339840
Serie:
Law & Literature; 8
Inhalt:
Criminals as Animals demonstrates how animal metaphors have been used to denigrate persons identified as criminal in literature, law, and science. It traces the popularization of the 'criminal beast' metaphor in the late 16th century, the troubling of the trope during the long 18th century, and the later discovery of criminal atavism. It concludes that criminal-animal metaphors influence punitive treatments of prisoners and the poor even today.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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List of Illustrations --
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List of Abbreviations --
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor --
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Chapter 2. Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker --
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Chapter 3. Richard III’s Animalistic Criminal Body --
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Chapter 4. Of a Howling Murderer – The Duke of Malfi --
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Chapter 5. Ben Jonson’s Comedies of Gulling Rogues --
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Introduction to Part II Eighteenth-Century Changes in the Criminal-Animal Trope --
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Chapter 6. Colonialism and the ‘Criminal Beast’ in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels --
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Chapter 7. William Hogarth’s The Four Stages of Cruelty – Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts --
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Chapter 8. The Prisoner as Suffering Animal – Caleb Williams’s Revision of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor --
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Introduction to Part III The Nineteenth Century’s Delineation of the Criminal Class --
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Chapter 9. Charles Dickens’s Contradictions --
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Chapter 10. The Criminal-Animal Metaphor and Lombrosian Criminology --
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Chapter 11. Coda --
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Bibliography --
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Index.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110339772
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110339857
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110339840
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339840
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