Criminal papers
Subtitle: reading crime in the French nineteenth century
By: edited by Rosemary A. Peters
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781443837897
Subjects: French literature; French Detective and mystery stories; History and criticism; Crime in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reading crime, reading criminal / Rosemary A. Peters; title: The protean nature of crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Paris / Lauren Pendas; title: Manhunt : officer v. criminal in Le Père Goriot (1835) and Les mémoires d'un gendarme (1867) / Megan E. Lawrence; title: "L'habit (ne) fait (pas) le moine" : the uses of physiognomy in reading (for) criminals / Adam M. Babin; title: "Gathered in illustrious assembly" : mesmeric agents, villains, and their "magnetic networks" in Alexandre Dumas's Le collier de la reine / Helana Brigman; title: Of fairy tales and finances : decriminalizing the class-climb in three nineteenth-century variations on the Cinderella story / Tara Smithson; title: "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; title: Criminal spaces in Notre-Dame de Paris : Hugo's portrayal of underworlds / Jessica Bombard; title: Industrial visions : seeing and perception in Balzac and Zola / Carrie O'Connor; title: Iron and glass : imprisonment in Emile Zola's Au bonheur des dames / Andrew Hill; title: The criminal letter : reading culpability in La bête humaine and Ferragus / Mary Cashell; title: Purloined letters : literary property and dangerous documents / Rosemary A. Peters; title: Narrative identity and criminal ideology in A scandal in Paris / Kristopher Mecholsky.