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L’anomalia Verdi, ovvero la resa del professore: il pensiero di Cesare Lombroso sulla musica
Laboratoire Italien, 2017 In 1894, Cesare Lombroso became the spokesman of a new way of understanding music: no longer as an art “inspired by feeling(s)”, but as a renewed discipline, entering a “totally scientific phase”.
Pierangelo Gentile
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Un dialogo tra irriducibili: Tolstoj e lombrosismo a confronto
ACME, 2018 Il viaggio a Mosca compiuto da Cesare Lombroso nel 1897 gli diede l’opportunità di osservare da vicino la prova vivente della sua teoria a proposito del legame tra genialità e disturbi psicotici: Lev Tolstoj.
Leana Rota
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L’exploration du musicien italien à la fin du XIXe siècle : entre médicalisation et paradoxe
Laboratoire Italien, 2017 This article explores the works of Cesare Lombroso on the man of genius and his relationships with insanity. It highlights these works’ prominent features such as the medicalized approach, the question of the heredity of talents, and the links between ...
Jean-Christophe Coffin
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From brain collections to modern brain banks: A historical perspective
Alzheimer's &Dementia: Translational Research &Clinical Interventions, Volume 5, Issue 1, Page 52-60, 2019., 2019 Abstract Our current knowledge of the structure, function, and diseases of the brain comes from direct examination of its substance. In the last centuries, only a few elite had managed to retrieve, gather, and preserve the elusive brain for their own research.
Arenn Faye Carlos +5 more
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La construction lombrosienne de l’épilepsie et le débat avec Gabriel Tarde. Crime et / ou folie ?
Criminocorpus, 2016 Cet article entend traiter le rapport entre crime et folie dans les théories de Cesare Lombroso et de Gabriel Tarde. Notre étude se concentre plus précisément sur l’apparition de la folie morale et de l’épilepsie dans L’uomo delinquente de Lombroso ...
Alessio Berré
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New motherhood and eugenics in German women's political and popular fiction around 1900
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 2, Page 101-111, April 2025.Abstract Fictional texts have long functioned as a testing ground for new impulses in society. At the turn of the twentieth century many German feminists were demanding greater influence for women in public life not despite but because of their role as mothers.
Caroline Bland
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Hérédité et atavisme criminel dans les romans d’Hector Malot
Arts et Savoirs, 2016 This article studies the litterary investment of the topic of heredity in several of Hector Malot’s novels, particularly his representation of the hereditary or « atavistic » criminal, inspired by the theory of the born-criminal developped by Cesare ...
Ivan Kiriow
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2025.Short Abstract In this paper, I describe how I have contended with the fraught relationships among mapping, nationalism, and colonialism in my teaching and research. I describe the ways my own thinking about mapping has been pushed in new directions by insights from Black geographies.
Camilla Hawthorne
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Engendering carcerality: An introduction
Gender &History, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 807-823, October 2024.Abstract Reflecting the carceral turn in scholarship, this introduction to a special issue on engendering carcerality explores the difference that gender makes in the history of the carceral in its various forms over time and space. It considers the multiple meanings and spaces of imprisonment, surveillance, and confinement; incarceration of mothers ...
Eileen Boris +2 more
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The Russian Review, Volume 83, Issue 3, Page 348-361, July 2024.Abstract This article analyzes Tolstoy’s narrative on the Moscow poor in What Should We Do Then? in the context of the tradition of slum literature in late nineteenth‐century Russia. It focuses on the interplay between the human body and the environment in a literary tradition that is heavily influenced by the biomedical discourse of degeneration.
Riccardo Nicolosi
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