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The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics Incriminating Subjects
By Peter J. Hutchings
Copyright 2001
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
234 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as... Read more
1. Introduction: 'This subject of ghosts' 2. Spectacularizing crime, ghostwriting the law 3. Mad, murderous and dangerous to know 4. The feminine phantom: women, crime and fantasy 5. Modern forensics: photography and other suspects 6. The genius of crime
Biography
Hutchings, Peter J.
