TY  - BOOK
AU  - Past,Elena
TI  - Methods of murder: Beccarian introspection and Lombrosian vivisection in Italian crime fiction 
SN  - 9781442698093
AV  - PQ4181 .M484 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Lombroso, Cesare,
KW  - Detective and mystery stories, Italian
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Crime in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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