UID:
almafu_9960890152402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (182 p.)
ISBN:
9781845459055
Serie:
Monographs in German History ; 22
Inhalt:
The Weimar Republic (1918–1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the public’s reaction to their crimes. The author argues that the development of a new type of crime fiction during this period - which turned literary tradition on its head by focusing on the criminal and abandoning faith in the powers of the rational detective - is intricately related to new ways of understanding criminality among professionals in the fields of law, criminology, and police science. Considering Weimar Germany not only as a culture in crisis (the standard view in both popular and scholarly studies), but also as a culture of crisis, the author explores the ways in which crime and crisis became the foundation of the Republic’s self-definition. An interdisciplinary cultural studies project, this book insightfully combines history, sociology, literary studies, and film studies to investigate a topic that cuts across all of these disciplines.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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FIGURES --
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --
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INTRODUCTION --
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Chapter 1 CRIME, DETECTION, AND GERMAN MODERNISM --
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Chapter 2 WRITING CRIMINALS Outsiders of Society and the Modernist Case History --
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Chapter 3 UNDERSTANDING CRIMINALS Th e Cases of Ella Klein and Franz Biberkopf --
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Chapter 4 SEEING CRIMINALS Mass Murder, Mass Culture, Mass Public --
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Chapter 5 TRACKING CRIMINALS Th e Cases of Peter Kürten, Franz Beckert, and Emil Tischbein --
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CONCLUSION Criminalistic Fantasy after Weimar --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9781845459055
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459055
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845459055
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845459055
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781845459055
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