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Crime in literature : sociology of deviance and fiction / Vincenzo Ruggiero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruggiero, Vincenzo.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crime--History.
- Crime.
- History.
- Crime--Sociological aspects.
- Deviant behavior.
- Crime in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 257 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso, 2003.
- Summary:
- Accessible to the general reader, Crime in Literature offers an original and thought-provoking survey that will be of interest to sociologists and criminologists as well as cultural and literary theorists.
- Contents:
- 1 Atavism and Conflict: Dostoevsky and Camus 9
- 2 Organizing Crime: Cervantes, Gay and Brecht 28
- 3 Legal and Illegal Drugs: Baudelaire and London 53
- 4 Nana, Women and Crime 77
- 5 Baldwin and Wright: Ethnic Minorities, Hate and Crime 104
- 6 Moby Dick and the Crimes of the Economy 135
- 7 Felix Krull: The Con Man and the Irrationality of Markets 156
- 8 Mark Twain and the Corruption of a Town 178
- 9 Hugo, Mirbeau and Imprisonment 194
- 10 Manzoni and Legal Suffering 216.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [236]-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1859844820
- 1859845703
- OCLC:
- 52258298
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