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Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2013.
©2013 |
| Colección: | Law & Literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (366 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110339840 3110339846 3110339773 9783110339772 |