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基本説明
Explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand.
Full Description
Crime and the Nation explores the correlation between fiction writing and national identity in the late eighteenth century when these two enterprises went hand in hand. The 1780s and '90s witnessed a spirited public debate on crime and punishment that produced a new kind of fiction and a new kind of prison. The world's first penitentiary-style prison opened at Philadelphia in 1790. At the same time jurists, reformers and fiction writers found new uses for the criminal. Suddenly, he was fascinating, he was edifying to the community, he was worth displaying and reforming. In a young nation whose very origins were perceived as criminal, yet clearly necessary and ultimately redeemable, crime emerged as an essential-and controversial-component of national identity. Crime and the Nation explores the nature of that identity, and the origins of America's unique and enduring love affair with crime and crime fiction.
Contents
Introduction: The Philadelphia StoryChapter One: The Science of Crime and the Crime of ScienceChapter Two: Nationalism and the Aesthetics of MurderChapter Three: Sexual Crimes: Justice and Gender in the 1790sChapter Four: Prison and the Law: The Philadelphia ReformsChapter Five: Prison and the Law: The Philadelphia FictionsChapter Six: ConclusionBibliography of Works Cited
