Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso / / Greta Olson.
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 Englan...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Law & Literature ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor
- Part I: Creating ‘Criminal Beasts’ in Early Modern Literature and Law
- Chapter 2. Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker
- Chapter 3. Richard III’s Animalistic Criminal Body
- Chapter 4. Of a Howling Murderer – The Duke of Malfi
- Chapter 5. Ben Jonson’s Comedies of Gulling Rogues
- Part II: Humanizing Animals and ‘Animalizing’ the Lower Orders during the Long Eighteenth Century
- Introduction to Part II Eighteenth-Century Changes in the Criminal-Animal Trope
- Chapter 6. Colonialism and the ‘Criminal Beast’ in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels
- Chapter 7. William Hogarth’s The Four Stages of Cruelty – Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts
- Chapter 8. The Prisoner as Suffering Animal – Caleb Williams’s Revision of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor
- Part III: Reinstating the ‘Criminal Beast’ during the Nineteenth Century
- Introduction to Part III The Nineteenth Century’s Delineation of the Criminal Class
- Chapter 9. Charles Dickens’s Contradictions
- Chapter 10. The Criminal-Animal Metaphor and Lombrosian Criminology
- Chapter 11. Coda
- Bibliography
- Index