Peter J Hutchings

The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics

Incriminating Subjects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 161mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780415236065
• ISBN-10: 0415236061
• Artikelnr.: 21419519

Autorenporträt

Hutchings, Peter J.

Inhaltsangabe

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