Using modernism as a lens, Stephen Brauer examines Americans' understanding of criminality in the twentieth-century and how the powerful figure of the criminal is key to exploring cultures, social norms, and, ultimately, laws.
Using modernism as a lens, Stephen Brauer examines Americans' understanding of criminality in the twentieth-century and how the powerful figure of the criminal is key to exploring cultures, social norms, and, ultimately, laws.
Stephen Brauer is associate professor of English at St. John Fisher College.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Cultural Work of American Crime Narratives Chapter 1: The Face of Crime, a Killer Body: Imagining the Criminal Type Chapter 2: "I Had to Have Her, If I Hung for It": Impulse, Repression, and Repetition Compulsion Chapter 3: Reforming the "Bad" Boy: Juvenile Delinquency, Intervention, and Choice Chapter 4: The Criminal as Self-Made Man Conclusion: The Crime Narrative in Late Capitalism
Introduction: The Cultural Work of American Crime Narratives Chapter 1: The Face of Crime, a Killer Body: Imagining the Criminal Type Chapter 2: "I Had to Have Her, If I Hung for It": Impulse, Repression, and Repetition Compulsion Chapter 3: Reforming the "Bad" Boy: Juvenile Delinquency, Intervention, and Choice Chapter 4: The Criminal as Self-Made Man Conclusion: The Crime Narrative in Late Capitalism
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