{"product_id":"methods-of-murder-9781442643888","title":"Methods of Murder","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first extended analysis of the relationship between Italian criminology and crime fiction in English, \u003cem\u003eMethods of Murder\u003c\/em\u003e examines works by major authors both popular, such as Gianrico Carofiglio, and canonical, such as Carlo Emilio Gadda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany scholars have argued that detective fiction did not exist in Italy until 1929, and that the genre, which was considered largely Anglo-Saxon, was irrelevant on the Italian peninsula. By contrast, Past traces the roots of the twentieth-century literature and cinema of crime to two much earlier, diverging interpretations of the criminal: the bodiless figure of Cesare Beccaria’s Enlightenment-era \u003cem\u003eOn Crimes and Punishments\u003c\/em\u003e, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso’s positivist \u003cem\u003eCriminal Man\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough her examinations of these texts, Past demonstrates the links between literary, philosophical, and scientific constructions of the criminal, and provides the basis for an important reconceptualiz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  Part One: Beccarian Introspection   * Cesare Beccaria's Disembodied Criminal * Dark Ends for Leonardo Sciascia's Enlightened Detectives   * Andrea Camilleri's Sicilian Simulacrum      * Violence and the Law in Gianrico Carofiglio's Beccarian Courtroom       Part Two: Lombrosian Vivisection   * Cesare Lombroso Vivisects the Criminal * Carlo Emilio Gadda's Bodies of Evidence * Dario Argento's Aesthetics of Violence * Carlo Lucarelli's Lombrosian Nightmare   Epilogue: Crime in the Twenty-First Century  Bibliography  Notes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408365887831,"sku":"9781442643888","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442643888.jpg?v=1730502675","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/methods-of-murder-9781442643888","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}