The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 22, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415236065
First sentence: Ghostly, illusory powers; a pervasive taint of criminality: the nineteenth-century subject is haunted by crime, by its signs and stories and the shapes of institutions designed for its regulation.