Criminal papers : reading crime in the French nineteenth century / edited by Rosemary A. Peters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peters, Rosemary A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

Detective and mystery stories, French--19th century--History and criticism.

Detective and mystery stories, French.

Crime in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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...

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 Pere Goriot (1835) and Les memoires 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 a moi" : self-making through women and property in Le Pere Goriot, La bete 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 bete 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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-3848-9

OCLC:

820123376