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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Hlavní autor: Kalifa, Dominique (Autor)
Další autoři: Emanuel, Susan, Maza, Sarah
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2019
Edice:European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
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ISBN:9780231547260
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Foreword --   |t Introduction --   |t PART I. The Advent of the Lower Depths --   |t 1. In the Den of Horror --   |t 2. Courts of Miracles --   |t 3. "Dangerous Classes" --   |t PART II. Scenarios of Society's Underside --   |t 4. Empire of Lists --   |t 5. The Disguised Prince --   |t 6. The Grand Dukes' Tour --   |t 7. Poetic Flight --   |t PART III. Ebbing of an Imaginary --   |t 8. Slow Eclipse of the Underworld --   |t 9. Persistent Shadows --   |t 10. Roots of Fascination --   |t Conclusion --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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