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  1. Criminal Papers
    Reading Crime in the French Nineteenth Century
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 144383789X; 1443838489; 9781443837897; 9781443838481
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Crime in literature; French literature; French literature; Crime in literature; Kriminalliteratur; Französisch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (257 p.)
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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..

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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

  2. Criminal Papers
    Reading Crime in the French Nineteenth Century
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

    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... more

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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

     

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