Methods of murder: beccarian introspection and lombrosian vivisection in italian crime fiction
Auteur :
Past, Elena M.
Éditeur :
University of Toronto Press
ISBN :
9781442643888
Date de publication :
13 mars 2012
Dimensions :
23,6 x 16,0 x 3,0 cm
Poids :
680 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Canada
Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man