Title Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso

Published Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013 ©2013

Table of Contents
	Acknowledgements					vii
	List of Illustrations					xi
	List of Abbreviations					xii
1.	Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor					1
pt. I	Creating ̀Criminal Beasts' in Early Modern Literature and Law
2.	Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker					41
3.	Richard Ill's Animalistic Criminal Body					85
4.	Of a Howling Murderer -- The Duke of Malfi					109
5.	Ben Jonson's Comedies of Gulling Rogues					131
pt. II	Humanizing Animals and Ànimalizing' the Lower Orders during the Long Eighteenth Century
	Introduction to Part II: Eighteenth-Century Changes in the Criminal-Animal Trope					157
6.	Colonialism and the ̀Criminal Beast' in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels					167
7.	William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty -- Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts					189
8.	The Prisoner as Suffering Animal -- Caleb Williams's Revision of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor					217
pt. III	Reinstating the ̀Criminal Beast' during the Nineteenth Century
	Introduction to Part III: The Nineteenth Century's Delineation of the Criminal Class					245
9.	Charles Dickens's Contradictions					251
10.	The Criminal-Animal Metaphor and Lombrosian Criminology					275
11.	Coda					303
	Bibliography					315
	Index					341

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Description 1 online resource (366 pages) Series Law & Literature ; v. 8 Law & Literature Contents Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Tracing the History of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor; Part I: Creating 'Criminal Beasts' in Early Modern Literature and Law; 2 Catching Conies with Thomas Harman, Robert Greene, and Thomas Dekker; 3 Richard III's Animalistic Criminal Body; 4 Of a Howling Murderer -- The Duke of Malfi; 5 Ben Jonson's Comedies of Gulling Rogues; Part II: Humanizing Animals and 'Animalizing' the Lower Orders during the Long Eighteenth Century; Introduction to Part II: Eighteenth-Century Changes in the Criminal-Animal Trope 6 Colonialism and the 'Criminal Beast' in Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels7 William Hogarth's The Four Stages of Cruelty -- Sympathizing with Animals and Denigrating the Lower Orders as Beasts; 8 The Prisoner as Suffering Animal -- Caleb Williams's Revision of the Criminal-Animal Metaphor; Part III: Reinstating the 'Criminal Beast' during the Nineteenth Century; Introduction to Part III: The Nineteenth Century's Delineation of the Criminal Class; 9 Charles Dickens's Contradictions; 10 The Criminal-Animal Metaphor and Lombrosian Criminology; 11 Coda; Bibliography; Index Summary Criminals as Animals demonstrates how animal metaphors have been used to denigrate persons identified as criminal in literature, law, and science. It traces the popularization of the 'criminal beast' metaphor in the late 16th century, the troubling of the trope during the long 18th century, and the later discovery of criminal atavism. It concludes that criminal-animal metaphors influence punitive treatments of prisoners and the poor even today Analysis Animal studies crime studies metaphor studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- History and criticism. Criminals in literature. Animals in literature. Human-animal relationships in literature. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. Animals in literature Criminals in literature English literature Human-animal relationships in literature Krimineller Motiv Tiere Motiv Literatur Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783110339840 3110339846 3110339773 9783110339772

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