The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects

ISBN-13: 9781138966949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 234 str.

Peter J. Hutchings

Opis

This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, became an obsession which haunted nineteenth century thought.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: 'This subject of ghosts' 2. Spectacularizing crime, ghostwriting the law 3. Mad, murderous and dangerous to know 4. The feminine phantom: women, crime and fantasy 5. Modern forensics: photography and other suspects 6. The genius of crime

O autorze

Hutchings, Peter J.