The courtesan and the gigolo
Subtitle: the murders in the Rue Montaigne and the dark side of empire in nineteenth-century Paris
By: Aaron Freundschuh
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781503600157; 9781503600829
Subjects: Xenophobia; Trials (Murder); Murder; Investigation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Elite cosmopolitanism and gentrification in western Paris; title: The crime scene; title: A reporter's ambition : George Grison and the rise of investigative crime reporting in Paris; title: The courtesan's objects : sexual danger and the high life of the demimonde; title: Colonial picaresque : the trans-Mediterranean investigation of a migrant; title: Criminal detection as colonial war by other means : investigative claims on the Latin-American rastaquouère; title: The trial of a gigolo : intimacy, foreignness, and the Boulangist crisis; title: The skin affair : punishment and the colonial body; title: Conclusion : on imperial insecurity.