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Vice, Crime, and Poverty How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld

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Vice, Crime, and Poverty : How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld

Verfasser: Kalifa, Dominique  
Erscheinungsort: New York, NY
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: [2019]
Umfang: 1 online resource
ISBN: 9780231547260
Schlagwort: Literatur / Unterwelt <Soziologie> / Kriminalität <Motiv> / Geschichte 1800-2000
 
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Titel: Vice, Crime, and Poverty
Untertitel: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld
URL Erlt Interna: Verlag
URL Erlt Info: URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Erläuterung: Volltext
Volltext : https://doi.org/10.7312/kali18742
Von: Dominique Kalifa
Verfasser: Kalifa, Dominique   Fragezeichen
Verf./Bet. Person: Emanuel, Susan   Fragezeichen
Verf./Bet. Person: Maza, Sarah C.   Fragezeichen
Erscheinungsort: New York, NY
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Erscheinungsjahr: [2019]
Erscheinungsjahr: © 2019
Umfang: 1 online resource
Reihe: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Fußnote: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)
Fußnote: In English
Abstract: Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of our everyday world. Lurking in the mirror that we hold up to our society, they are our counterparts and our doubles, repelling us and yet offering the tantalizing promise of escape. Although these images testify to undeniable social realities, the sordid lower depths make up a symbolic and social imaginary that reflects our fears and anxieties—as well as our desires.In Vice, Crime, and Poverty, Dominique Kalifa traces the untold history of the concept of the underworld and its representations in popular culture. He examines how the myth of the lower depths came into being in nineteenth-century Europe, as biblical figures and Christian traditions were adapted for a world turned upside-down by the era of industrialization, democratization, and mass culture. From the Parisian demimonde to Victorian squalor, from the slums of New York to the sewers of Buenos Aires, Kalifa deciphers the making of an image that has cast an enduring spell on its audience. While the social conditions that created that underworld have changed, Vice, Crime, and Poverty shows that, from social-scientific ideas of the underclass to contemporary cinema and steampunk culture, its shadows continue to haunt us
Volltext E-Book : https://doi.org/10.7312/kali18742
ISBN: 9780231547260
DOI: 10.7312/kali18742
B3Kat-ID: BV045926157
Schlagwort: Literatur ; Unterwelt <Soziologie> ; Kriminalität <Motiv> ; Geschichte 1800-2000
Subject: Criminals History Marginality, Social, in literature Marginality, Social Urban poor History
GND-Nummer: (DE-588)138434476
GND-Nummer: (DE-588)1056145277
GND-Nummer: (DE-588)129670537