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Criminals As Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso
2013, De Gruyter, Inc.
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3110339854 9783110339857
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Criminals As Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso
2013, de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
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Criminals as animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso
2013, De Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter Inc.
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Criminals As Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso
2013, De Gruyter, Inc.
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-340) and index.
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