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Slum Bodies: Leo Tolstoy’s What Should We Do Then?, the Moscow Poor, and Late Nineteenth‐Century Russian Slum Literature

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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Republican Monsters: The Cultural Construction of American Positivist Criminology, 1767-1920 [PDF]

, 2019
This dissertation examines the history of and cultural influences on positivist criminology in the United States. From Benjamin Rush to the present day, the U.S.
Burton, Chase Smith
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Ordine biologico e ordine morale. Appunti sulla riflessione criminologica italiana in tema di pena di morte (sec. XIX) [PDF]

, 2016
Il saggio si propone di affrontare gli argomenti favorevoli alla pena di morte di tre autori attivi nella seconda metà del sec. XIX (Lombroso, Garofalo, Ferri), costituenti la c.d.
TAVILLA, Carmelo Elio
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Degeneration, Gender, and American Identity in the Early Fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs [PDF]

, 2013
Edgar Rice Burroughs rendered a particular construction of womanhood as a remedy for national degeneration and neurasthenia. Progressive-era Americans like Burroughs wondered whether the developmental forces that shaped industrial society might also ...
Biggs, James
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Tres momentos, una idea. Un concepto filosófico acerca del desarrollo del ser humano presente en la psicología contemporánea

Humanidades, 2019
Existen vínculos filosóficos entre el pensamiento romántico, el positivismo materialista, el psicoanálisis y algunas ideas centrales de las actuales neurociencias.
Juan Pablo Roldán
doaj   +1 more source

Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies in Bram Stoker’s \u3cem\u3eDracula\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eThe Lair of the White Worm\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2006
Scientific ideologies swirl throughout Stoker’s two most gothic novels, Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911), and this essay will address those ideologies as literary manifestations of just some of the “weird science” that was permeating ...
Hoeveler, Diane
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L'homme criminel de Cesare Lombroso : entre science et littérature

Criminocorpus, 2012
Cet article traite du rapport entre Cesare Lombroso et la littérature en s’appuyant notamment sur l’analyse de la première édition de L’homme criminel (1876).
Lucia Rodler
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“Ganhei a Situação”: uma analise sobre a abordagem e a seletividade policial [PDF]

, 2015
Anais das IV Jornadas Internacionais de Problemas Latino-Americanos: Lutas, Experiências e Debates na América Latina - ISBN 978-950-793-223-6 - Orgs.
Leal, José Luis dos Santos
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Attentati anarchici di fine Ottocento tra antropologia criminale e canzoni popolari

Italies
Durant la dernière décennie du xixe siècle, les États européens ont été la cible d’une série d’attentats anarchistes. L’assassinat du président français Sadi Carnot par Sante Caserio reçut une grande attention médiatique et académique, notamment de ...
Michela Pusterla
doaj   +1 more source

Law, Science and Literature in Post-unitarian Italy: the Misdea Case

Between, 2012
Il saggio si concentra sul processo a Salvatore Misdea, condannato a morte nonostante Cesare Lombroso l’avesse dichiarato “imbecille morale”, e sul romanzo giudiziario scritto da Edoardo Scarfoglio in risposta a questa sentenza.
Alessio Berrè
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