Methods of murder : Beccarian introspection and Lombrosian vivisection in Italian crime fiction

Methods of murder : Beccarian introspection and Lombrosian vivisection in Italian crime fiction /

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 Cr...

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Main Author: Past, Elena
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Beccaria, Cesare, > marchese di, > 1738-1794. > Dei delitti e delle pene.
Lombroso, Cesare, > 1835-1909. > Uomo delinquente.
Beccaria, Cesare, > marchese di, > 1738-1794 > Dei delitti e delle pene.
Beccaria, Cesare, > 1735-1793.
Lombroso, Cesare, > 1836-1909.
Uomo delinquente (Lombroso, Cesare)
Dei delitti e delle pene (Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di)
Detective and mystery stories, Italian > History and criticism.
Crime in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Italian.
Crime in literature
Detective and mystery stories, Italian
Italienisch.
Kriminalliteratur.
Brott i litteraturen.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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