ISBN:
9780231547260
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (297 pages)
Series Statement:
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
DDC:
305.569091732
Keywords:
Urban poor-History
;
Marginality, Social
;
Marginality, Social, in literature
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Vice, Crime, and Poverty traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Dominique Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience.
Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I: The Advent of the Lower Depths -- 1. In the Den of Horror -- 2. Courts of Miracles -- 3. "Dangerous Classes" -- Part II: Scenarios of Society's Underside -- 4. Empire of Lists -- 5. The Disguised Prince -- 6. The Grand Dukes' Tour -- 7. Poetic Flight -- Part III: Ebbing of an Imaginary -- 8. Slow Eclipse of the Underworld -- 9. Persistent Shadows -- 10. Roots of Fascination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
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