The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics : Incriminating Subjects.
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 c...
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Routledge,
2014.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in sociology.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: "This subject of ghosts"; 2 Spectacularizing crime, ghostwriting the law; 3 Mad, murderous and dangerous to know; 4 The feminine phantom: women, crime and fantasy; 5 Modern forensics: photography and other suspects; 6 The genius of crime; References; Index.