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A cultural history of causality : science, murder novels, and systems of thought /
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishme...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (437 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826230 1400826233 9780691115238 0691115230 9780691127682 0691127689 |