Methods of Murder : : Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction / / Elena M. Past.
The first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, Methods of Murder examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda.Many scholars have argued that detective fiction did not ex...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy
- PART ONE. Beccarian Introspection
- 1. Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal
- 2. Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives
- 3. Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum
- 4. Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom
- PART TWO. Lombrosian Vivisection
- 5. Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal
- 6. Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence
- 7. Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence
- 8. Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare
- Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- References
- Index