A Cultural History of Causality: Science, Murder Novels, and Systems of Thought

by Stephen Kern

Book Overview

This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691127689
• ISBN13: 9780691127682
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"