Criminals as animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso
By: Greta Olson
Series: Law & literature -- volume 8
Publisher: De Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9783110339772
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: English literature; Human-animal relationships in literature; Animals in literature; Criminals in literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-340) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Tracing the history of the criminal-animal metaphor; title: Part 1: Creating 'criminal beasts' in Early Modern literature and law. Catching conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Green, and Thomas Dekker ; Richard III's animalistic criminal body ; Of a howling murderer: The Duke of Malfi ; Ben Jonson's comedies of gulling rogues; title: Part II: Humanizing animals and 'animalizing' the lower orders during the long eighteenth century. Introduction to Part II: Eighteenth-century changes in the criminal-animal trope ; Colonialism and the 'criminal beast' in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's travels ; William Hogarth's The four stages of cruelty: sympathizing with animals and denigrating the lower orders as beasts ; The prisoner as suffering animal: Caleb Williams's revision of the criminal-animal metaphor; title: Part III: Reinstating the 'criminal beast' during the nineteenth century. Introduction to Part III: The nineteenth century's delineation of the criminal class ; Charles Dickens's contradictions ; The criminal-animal metaphor and Lombrosian criminology ; Coda.