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Criminals as animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso / Greta Olson.
| Author/creator | Olson, Greta |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013] |
| Description | x, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Law & literature, 2191-8457 ; volume 8 |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-340) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012276326 |
| ISBN | 9783110339772 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 3110339773 (alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |