The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics: Incriminating Subjects

by Peter J. Hutchings

Book Overview

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 constructed in places such as popular crime stories or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415236061
• ISBN13: 9780415236065
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.4"