Vice, crime and poverty : how the Western imagination invented the underworld /

"Prostitutes, criminals, and the sordid, dangerous places they inhabit have always been with us. Yet there has not always been an "underworld," or what the French call "les bas-fonds." This expression, which appeared in most western languages in the 19th century, reveals a n...

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Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Kalifa, Dominique (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Emanuel, Susan (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Sprache:Englisch
Französisch
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:European perspectives.
Online-Zugang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/kali18742
Inhaltsangabe:
  • In the den of horror
  • Courts of miracles
  • "Dangerous classes"
  • Empire of lists
  • The disguised prince
  • The grand dukes' tour
  • Poetic flight
  • Ebbing of an imaginary
  • Slow eclipse of the underworld
  • Persistent shadows
  • Roots of fascination