Methods of Murder

Methods of Murder

Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction

by Elena Past

353 pages· 2012· ISBN 9781442643888
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Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria's Enlightenment-era On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man

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