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Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso demonstrates how animal metaphors have been used to denigrate persons identified as criminal in literature, law, and science. Its three-part history traces the popularization of the 'criminal beast' metaphor in late sixteenth-century England, the troubling of the trope during the long eighteenth century, and the late nineteenth-century discovery of criminal atavism. With chapters on rogue pamphlets, Shakespeare, Webster, Jonson, Defoe and Swift, Godwin, Dickens, and Lombroso, the book illustrates how ideologically inscribed...

This collection of essays seeks to combine narratological analyses with an investigation of the ideological ramifications of the use of narrative strategies. As the title indicates, the overarching question asked here is how to do things with narrative. The essays collected here do not posit any intrinsic or stable connection between narrative techniques, on the one hand, and world views, on the other. Instead, the articles demonstrate that world views are always expressed through specific formal strategies. This insight leads to the question of why these particular techniques (rather than...