Criminal Papers : Reading Crime in the French Nineteenth Century.

By:

Peters, Rosemary A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443838481
1443838489

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

840.9007

LOC classification:

PQ288

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Contents:

Introduction : reading crime, reading criminal / Rosemary A. Peters -- The protean nature of crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Paris / Lauren Pendas -- Manhunt : officer v. criminal in Le Père Goriot (1835) and Les mémoires d'un gendarme (1867) / Megan E. Lawrence -- "L'habit (ne) fait (pas) le moine" : the uses of physiognomy in reading (for) criminals / Adam M. Babin -- "Gathered in illustrious assembly" : mesmeric agents, villains, and their "magnetic networks" in Alexandre Dumas's Le collier de la reine / Helana Brigman -- Of fairy tales and finances : decriminalizing the class-climb in three nineteenth-century variations on the Cinderella story / Tara Smithson -- "Ce(lle)-ci est à moi" : self-making through women and property in Le Père Goriot, La bête humaine, Wuthering Heights, and La migration des coeurs / Jessica Hutchins -- Criminal spaces in Notre-Dame de Paris : Hugo's portrayal of underworlds / Jessica Bombard -- Industrial visions : seeing and perception in Balzac and Zola / Carrie O'Connor -- Iron and glass : imprisonment in Emile Zola's Au bonheur des dames / Andrew Hill -- The criminal letter : reading culpability in La bête humaine and Ferragus / Mary Cashell -- Purloined letters : literary property and dangerous documents / Rosemary A. Peters -- Narrative identity and criminal ideology in A scandal in Paris / Kristopher Mecholsky.

Summary: Throughout the nineteenth century, shady characters appear in French writings from one end of the literary spectrum to another. While Paris gleams through the night, the City of Lights has a darker underside Other its own infrastructure, its own rules and traditions - and its own literature. In the shadows of the capital, thieves, murderers, addicts, shoplifters, seducers, and smugglers carry out their nefarious acts, pursued by detectives (both police and private) who seek to apprehend and an ...

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Throughout the nineteenth century, shady characters appear in French writings from one end of the literary spectrum to another. While Paris gleams through the night, the City of Lights has a darker underside Other its own infrastructure, its own rules and traditions - and its own literature. In the shadows of the capital, thieves, murderers, addicts, shoplifters, seducers, and smugglers carry out their nefarious acts, pursued by detectives (both police and private) who seek to apprehend and an ...