Vice, Crime, and Poverty : How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld /

Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates-part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they...

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Main Author:	Kalifa, Dominique (Author)
Other Authors:	Emanuel, Susan, Maza, Sarah
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2019
Series:	European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Subjects:	Criminals > History. Marginality, Social, in literature. Marginality, Social. Urban poor > History. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. chudoba v literatúre
ISBN:	9780231547260
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