Past, Elena,  1976- <br/><br/>
Methods of murder  Beccarian introspection and Lombrosian vivisection in Italian crime fiction / 
Elena Past. 
 - Toronto [Ont. :  University of Toronto Press,  (c)2012. (Saint-Lazare, Quebec :  Canadian Electronic Library,  (c)2012). 
 - 1 online resource (x, 353 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: The Mysterious Case of Crime Fiction in Italy --  Part One: Beccarian Introspection --  1 Investigative Introspection: Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal --  2 Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives --  3 Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum --  4 Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom --  Part Two: Lombrosian Vivisection --  5 Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal --  6 Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence --  7 Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence --  8 Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare --  Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century. 
<br/><br/> 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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442698093 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Lombroso, Cesare, 1835-1909 -- 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Detective and mystery stories, Italian--History and criticism.<br/>Crime in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ4181  / .M484 2012