Description: Apprehending the Criminal : The Production of Deviance in Nineteenth-Century Discourse, Paperback by Leps, Marie-Christine; Fish, Stanley Eugene (EDT); Jameson, Fredric (EDT), ISBN 0822312719, ISBN-13 9780822312710, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this wide-ranging analysis, Marie-Christine Leps traces the production and circulation of knowledge about the criminal in nineteenth-century discourse, and shows how the delineation of deviance served to construct cultural norms. She demonstrates how the apprehension of crime and criminals was an important factor in the establishment of such key institutions as national systems of education, a cheap daily press, and various welfare measures designed to fight the spread of criminality. Leps focuses on three discursive practices: the emergence of criminology, the development of a mass-produced press, and the proliferation of crime fiction, in both England and France. Beginning where Foucault's work Discipline and Punish ends, Leps analyzes intertextual modes of knowledge production and shows how the elaboration of hegemonic truths about the criminal is related to the exercise of power. The scope of her investigation includes scientific treatises such as Criminal Man by Cesare Lombroso and The English Convict by Charles Goring, reports on the Jack the Ripper murders in The Times and Le Petit Parisien, the Sherlock Holmes stories, Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and novels by Zola and Bourget.
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Book Title: Apprehending the Criminal : the Production of Deviance in Nineteenth Century Discourse
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Topic: Linguistics / Semantics, Mystery & Detective, Semiotics & Theory, Criminology
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 1992
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Author: Marie-Christine Leps
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
