The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics
Title | The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Hutchings |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317797507 |
This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, became an obsession which haunted nineteenth century thought.
The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics
Title | The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Hutchings |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780415236065 |
"This book will be of essential interest to sociologists, psychologists, cultural historians, criminologists and those working in the field of legal studies."--BOOK JACKET.
The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics
Title | The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Hutchings |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2014-06-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317797515 |
This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, became an obsession which haunted nineteenth century thought.
Law and Literature Reconsidered
Title | Law and Literature Reconsidered PDF eBook |
Author | Austin Sarat |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | 183 |
Release | 2008-02-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0762314826 |
Once hailed as a promising new way to think about law and as opening a vital conversation about literature the question is whether the law and literature enterprise has lived up to its initial promise. This is a contemporary study of law and literature. It includes contributions by an international group of leading scholars.
Law and Literature
Title | Law and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | María José Falcón y Tella |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2016-03-24 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9004304355 |
María José Falcón y Tella invites us on a fascinating journey through the world of law and literature, travelling through the different eras and meeting eternal and as such current issues. Law in Literature is undoubtedly the most fertile and documented perspective of this book.
Captive Images
Title | Captive Images PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Biber |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 156 |
Release | 2007-05-07 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1135308098 |
The hooded bandit -- The national bank -- The epidermal examination -- The mother's trouble -- The danger zone -- The spectre -- Your fantasy, my crime.
The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America
Title | The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America PDF eBook |
Author | Nan Goodman |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 372 |
Release | 2017-05-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317042972 |
Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and humanities departments, this Companion touches on regulatory, statutory, and common law in nineteenth-century America and encompasses judges, lawyers, legislators, litigants, and the institutions they inhabited (courts, firms, prisons). It will serve as a reference for specific information on a variety of law- and humanities-related topics as well as a guide to understanding how the two disciplines developed in tandem in the long nineteenth century.