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Vice, crime and poverty : how the Western imagination invented the underworld /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kalifa, Dominique (Author)
Other Authors: Emanuel, Susan (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Series:European perspectives.
Subjects:
Urban poor > History.
Marginality, Social.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Criminals > History.
Criminals in literature.
Inner cities > History.
Crime > History.
Inner cities in literature.
Social representations.
Deviant behavior in literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • In the den of horror
  • Courts of miracles
  • "Dangerous classes"
  • Empire of lists
  • The disguised prince
  • The grand dukes' tour
  • Poetic flight
  • Ebbing of an imaginary
  • Slow eclipse of the underworld
  • Persistent shadows
  • Roots of fascination