Olson Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-033984-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 366 Seiten

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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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of literary studies and cultural history; historians of

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olson, Greta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Kriminalpsychologie, Forensische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;List of Illustrations;11
3;List of Abbreviations;12
4;1 Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor;13
5;Part I: Creating ‘Criminal Beasts’ in Early Modern Literature and Law;51
5.1;2 Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker;53
5.2;3 Richard III’s Animalistic Criminal Body;97
5.3;4 Of a Howling Murderer – The Duke of Malfi;121
5.4;5 Ben Jonson’s Comedies of Gulling Rogues;143
6;Part II: Humanizing Animals and ‘Animalizing’ the Lower Orders during the Long Eighteenth Century;167
6.1;Introduction to Part II: Eighteenth-Century Changes in the Criminal-Animal Trope;169
6.2;6 Colonialism and the ‘Criminal Beast’ in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels;179
6.3;7 William Hogarth’s The Four Stages of Cruelty – Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts;201
6.4;8 The Prisoner as Suffering Animal – Caleb Williams’s Revision of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor;229
7;Part III: Reinstating the ‘Criminal Beast’ during the Nineteenth Century;255
7.1;Introduction to Part III: The Nineteenth Century’s Delineation of the Criminal Class;257
7.2;9 Charles Dickens’s Contradictions;263
7.3;10 The Criminal-Animal Metaphor and Lombrosian Criminology;287
7.4;11 Coda;315
8;Bibliography;327
9;Index;353

Über Autor(innen)

Greta Olson, University of Giessen, Germany.