Exceptional crime in early modern Spain : taxonomic and intellectual perspectives /

"Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Río Parra, Elena del (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Series:Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 68.
Subjects:
To 1800
Murder > Spain > History.
Murder > Press coverage > Spain > History.
Murder in literature.
Meurtre > Espagne > Histoire.
Meurtre > Couverture de presse > Espagne > Histoire.
Meurtre dans la littérature.
Murder
Murder in literature
Social conditions
Spain > Social conditions > To 1800.
Spain
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed within the parameters of exception, borrowing from pre-existent forms while devising new patterns and categories such as criminography, the 'star killer, ' the staging of crimes as suicides, serial murders, and the faking of madness. These accounts aim at bewildering and shocking demanding readers through a carefully displayed cult to excessive behaviour. The arranged 'economy of death' displayed in murder accounts will set them apart from other exceptional instances, as proven by their long-standing presence in subsequent centuries"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9004392394
9789004392397
ISSN:1569-1934 ;

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