Format:
Online-Ressource (XII, 354 S.)
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9783110339840
Series Statement:
Law & Literature 8
Content:
Main description: 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.
Content:
Biographical note: Greta Olson, University of Giessen, Germany.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110339857
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110339772
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Literatur
;
Krimineller
;
Tiere
;
Geschichte 1590-1900
DOI:
10.1515/9783110339840
Author information:
Olson, Greta 1963-
