 | Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction Subjects: Detective and mystery stories Italian -- History and criticism; Beccaria Cesare marchese di 1738–1794. Dei delitti e delle pene; Lombroso Cesare 1835–1909. Uomo delinquente; Crime in literature; 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 On Crimes and Punishments, and the biological offender of Cesare Lombroso's positivist Criminal Man Past Elena M. : Elena Past is an assistant professor of Italian in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University. |
