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Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso (Hardcover)
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Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso (Hardcover)
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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