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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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh Tiếng Pháp |
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2019]
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| Loạt: | European perspectives.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/kali18742 |
Mục lục:
- 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