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100 1 $aKalifa, Dominique,$eauthor.
240 10 $aBas-fonds.$lEnglish
245 10 $aVice, crime and poverty :$bhow the Western imagination invented the underworld /$cDominique Kalifa ; translated by Susan Emanuel.
263 $a1902
264 1 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$c[2019]
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aEuropean perspectives
520 $a"Prostitutes, criminals, and the sordid, dangerous places they inhabit have always been with us. Yet there has not always been an "underworld," or what the French call "les bas-fonds." This expression, which appeared in most western languages in the 19th century, reveals a new way of looking at these social ills and raises a key historical question: why did the century that gave us positivism, industry, democratization, and mass culture name--and thus reframe--its view of its social margins? This book explores this imaginary. It shows how the underworld came into being in the shattered Europe of the 19th century, born of a tradition in which biblical symbols-Sodom, Gomorrah, Babylon-intermingled with the "bad poor" of Christian lore and images of modern roguery like the Cour des Miracles. It decodes the construction of a worldview that has never ceased to fascinate us. For while it connotes things that are real-poverty, crime, and transgressions of all sorts-the "underworld" also constitutes an imaginary that expresses our fears, our anxieties, our desires. In representing the nether regions of our society-its "accursed share" so to speak-it also provides a route of symbolic and social escape. Although many of its components still exist or have been readapted to new contexts, the specific combination that arose in connection with the 19th century underworld gradually faded away in the 20th century. The welfare states established in the wake of the Second World War left very little room for it. And yet, while the contexts have changed, both the debates on issues related to the "underclass" and the images in contemporary cinema and steampunk culture reveal that the shadow of the underworld still lurks all around us"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aTranslation of: Bas-fonds.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIn the den of horror -- Courts of miracles -- "Dangerous classes" -- Empire of lists -- The disguised prince -- The grand dukes' tour -- Poetic flight -- Ebbing of an imaginary -- Slow eclipse of the underworld -- Persistent shadows -- Roots of fascination.
650 0 $aUrban poor$xHistory.
650 0 $aMarginality, Social.
650 0 $aMarginality, Social, in literature.
650 0 $aCriminals$xHistory.
650 0 $aCriminals in literature.
650 0 $aInner cities$xHistory.
650 0 $aCrime$xHistory.
650 0 $aInner cities in literature.
650 0 $aSocial representations.
650 0 $aDeviant behavior in literature.
650 7 $aCrime.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00882984
650 7 $aCriminals.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00883516
650 7 $aCriminals in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00883558
650 7 $aDeviant behavior in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00891966
650 7 $aInner cities.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00973711
650 7 $aInner cities in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00973720
650 7 $aMarginality, Social.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01009156
650 7 $aMarginality, Social, in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01009175
650 7 $aSocial representations.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01746946
650 7 $aUrban poor.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01162512
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
700 1 $aEmanuel, Susan,$etranslator.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aKalifa, Dominique, author.$tVice, crime and poverty$dNew York : Columbia University Press, [2019]$z9780231547260$w(DLC) 2018051325
852 00 $bleh$hHV6963$i.K347 2019