Criminal papers : reading crime in the French nineteenth century - Peters, Rosemary A. (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2012)
Introduction : reading crime, reading criminal / Rosemary A. Peters -- The protean nature of crime and punishment in nineteenth-century Paris / Lauren Pendas -- Manhunt : officer v. criminal in Le Père Goriot (1835) and Les mémoires d'un gendarme (1867) / Megan E. Lawrence -- "L'habit (ne) fait (pas) le moine" : the uses of physiognomy in reading (for) criminals / Adam M. Babin -- "Gathered in illustrious assembly" : mesmeric agents, villains, and their "magnetic networks" in Alexandre Dumas's Le collier de la reine / Helana Brigman -- Of fairy tales and finances : decriminalizing the class-climb in three nineteenth-century variations on the Cinderella story / Tara Smithson -- "Ce(lle)-ci est à moi" : self-making through women and property in Le Père Goriot, La bête humaine, Wuthering Heights, and La migration des coeurs / Jessica Hutchins -- Criminal spaces in Notre-Dame de Paris : Hugo's portrayal of underworlds / Jessica Bombard -- Industrial visions : seeing and perception in Balzac and Zola / Carrie O'Connor -- Iron and glass : imprisonment in Emile Zola's Au bonheur des dames / Andrew Hill -- The criminal letter : reading culpability in La bête humaine and Ferragus / Mary Cashell -- Purloined letters : literary property and dangerous documents / Rosemary A. Peters -- Narrative identity and criminal ideology in A scandal in Paris / Kristopher Mecholsky.
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Keywords: French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Detective and mystery stories, French -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Crime in literature; Electronic books