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CRIMINALS AS ANIMALS FROM SHAKESPEARE TO LOMBRO...

Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso demonstrates how animal metaphors have been
used to denigrate persons identified as criminal in literature  law  and science. Its
three-part history traces the popularization of the 'criminal beast' metaphor in late
sixteenth-century England  the troubling of the trope during the long eighteenth century  and
the late nineteenth-century discovery of criminal atavism. With chapters on rogue pamphlets 
Shakespeare  Webster  Jonson  Defoe and Swift  Godwin  Dickens  and Lombroso  the book
illustrates how ideologically inscribed metaphors foster transfers between law  penal practices
and literature. Criminals as Animals concludes that criminal-animal metaphors continue to
negatively influence the treatment of prisoners  suspected terrorists  and the poor even today.

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