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Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,056
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Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso (Hardcover): Greta Olson

Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso (Hardcover)

Greta Olson

Series: Law & Literature

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Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso demonstrates how animal metaphors have been used to denigrate persons identified as criminal in literature, law, and science. Its three-part history traces the popularization of the 'criminal beast' metaphor in late sixteenth-century England, the troubling of the trope during the long eighteenth century, and the late nineteenth-century discovery of criminal atavism. With chapters on rogue pamphlets, Shakespeare, Webster, Jonson, Defoe and Swift, Godwin, Dickens, and Lombroso, the book illustrates how ideologically inscribed metaphors foster transfers between law, penal practices, and literature. Criminals as Animals concludes that criminal-animal metaphors continue to negatively influence the treatment of prisoners, suspected terrorists, and the poor even today.

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Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of origin: Germany
Series: Law & Literature
Release date: December 2013
First published: 2014
Authors: Greta Olson
Dimensions: 230 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 978-3-11-033977-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
LSN: 3-11-033977-3
Barcode: 9783110339772

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