Screen LibraryCriminals as animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso /
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| Published: |
De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Law & literature,
volume 8 |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-340) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9783110339772 3110339773 9783110339840 3110339846 |
| Index Number: | PR151 |
| CLC: | I561.06 |
| Call Number: | I561.06/O525 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Tracing the history of the criminal-animal metaphor -- Part 1: Creating 'criminal beasts' in Early Modern literature and law. Catching conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Green, and Thomas Dekker ; Richard III's animalistic criminal body ; Of a howling murderer: The Duke of Malfi ; Ben Jonson's comedies of gulling rogues -- Part II: Humanizing animals and 'animalizing' the lower orders during the long eighteenth century. Introduction to Part II: Eighteenth-century changes in the criminal-animal trope ; Colonialism and the 'criminal beast' in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's travels ; William Hogarth's The four stages of cruelty: sympathizing with animals and denigrating the lower orders as beasts ; The prisoner as suffering animal: Caleb Williams's revision of the criminal-animal metaphor -- Part III: Reinstating the 'criminal beast' during the nineteenth century. Introduction to Part III: The nineteenth century's delineation of the criminal class ; Charles Dickens's contradictions ; The criminal-animal metaphor and Lombrosian criminology ; Coda. |