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Author : Henry Brodribb Irving
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044651789
Author : H. B. Irving
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1533347042
THE study of our great neighbor's rats and ferrets; in other words, of her criminals and police, has long been a favorite one with English writers. Not, as Mr. Irving justly observes, because French crimes are more atrocious than those of other nations, but because their criminal procedure gives to a great trial a dramatic and fascinating interest which our methods in England do not allow. But while the author has traversed a somewhat well-worn road and tells of trials, some of which have been described in a recent work, his narrative is so well written as to justify the book. We feel in reading his account of a series of great crimes and their unraveling that Mr. Irving is telling us just what we wanted to learn. At the same time it may be well to say that this sort of book, while interesting and sometimes fascinating reading, does no more to advance the scientific study of crime than well-written reports of remarkable trials. They are evidence, and are so far valuable, but for a summing-up of such cases, and for deductions which may lead to reform in crude criminal methods and the ultimate elimination of crime, as distinct from disease, we shall have to look elsewhere. Mr. Irving remarks that the study of criminal anthropology has attained considerable dimensions on the Continent but he considers the results to have been disappointing, the attempt to connect criminals with savages having broken down, and he quotes the observation of Mr. Goldwin Smith that the persistent criminal has his status in nature and society as an organism to whom altruistic pleasure simply does not appeal. We cannot admit that the scientific study of the criminal has failed, rather it has only just begun. As to the imaginary status of the evil-doer in nature and society, nature and society are more strongly differentiated than Mr. Irving seems to imagine. The tiger must be indifferent to suffering, to live; the pike must be voracious to exist; the parasite will prey, by very instinct, upon the creature in which it has its habitation; but man is a family, living by ideals as well as instincts. To apply to him the laws that govern the lower animals and the unconscious world, is unsound, because they have largely ceased to operate on him. The nature of the human race is to be unnatural, if one may venture to employ that misused term; the whole of civilization is of course artificial, and neither the laws nor the instincts which fashion and guide the animal kingdoms have unrestricted application in the world of men. The question to be considered is what are the ways of human nature; how far are men and women prone to evil, and how much of it is forced unwillingly upon them either by twists of temperament or by bad social conditions? We agree that the root of all real crime is selfishness, indifference to the sufferings of others; insensibility to the feelings of surrounding life. And Mr. Irving gives us a glimpse of an ideally bad sample of humanity in his opening chapter. This interesting specimen was Lacenaire; a man of considerable capacity although apparently wanting in balance and application, for he tried his hand at several sorts of employment but stuck to none of them. And going through the other cases in the book we find much evidence of that subtle "something wrong" which might explain and may excuse so much. Campi, the double murderer, hides his head like an ostrich in the bedclothes to avoid arrest; Troppmann writes to the wife of one of his victims that he had given her husband the great sum of £20,000, which from a young man of his class was surely not a probable event. Euphrasie Mercier lived with two mad sisters and an insane brother-a truly ghastly household-for these she worked and strove and ultimately committed murder; who knows her responsibility? -Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, Vol. 92
Author : H. B. Irving
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 133003547X
Excerpt from Studies of French Criminals of the Nineteenth Century "The annals of criminal jurisprudence," wrote Edmund Burke, "exhibit human nature in a variety of positions, at once the most striking, interesting, and affecting. They present tragedies of real life, often heightened in their effect by the grossness of the injustice, and the malignity of the prejudices which accompanied them. At the same time, real culprits, as original characters, stand forward on the canvas of humanity as prominent objects for our special study." The last sentence in this passage applies directly to the cases set out in this volume, which have been selected from the French criminal records of the nineteenth century. They are studies of real culprits, whose guilt is, in all but one instance, beyond the suspicion of a doubt. As studies of character, and as examples of the administration of criminal justice in France, they may be of some interest or value to those who look to the human document for specimens of human character as it actually is, or for suggestions on which to build some work of fiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : H. B. 1870-1919 Irving
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1355138809
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Rosemary A. Peters
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781443838481
Throughout the nineteenth century, shady characters appear in French writings from one end of the literary spectrum to another. While Paris gleams through the night, the City of Lights has a darker underside with its own infrastructure, its own rules and traditions – and its own literature. In the shadows of the capital, thieves, murderers, addicts, shoplifters, seducers, and smugglers carry out their nefarious acts, pursued by detectives (both police and private) who seek to apprehend and analyze them. These novels pave the way for a new genre, the detective novel or roman polar, which gains ever-increasing popularity as the nineteenth century moves toward its close and the twentieth dawns with developments in literature and other genres. These stories are experimental by nature, and lend themselves to further innovations, both apertures (to borrow Barthes’s term) and departures. In addition, the detective stories of the nineteenth century contribute to the creation of a new art in the twentieth century: they are part and parcel of the work of film, especially film noir. This volume considers literature of the criminal underworld and its encounters with society, in the city and the popular imagination. The twelve essays compiled here examine the intersections between law and literature in the nineteenth century, from the newly adjusted property laws after the Revolution of 1789 through the scientific discourse around kleptomania in the fin-de-siècle. The authors question how texts, both canonical and “paraliterary,” are inscribed into the social, political, economic and artistic dialogues of the period. Other questions come up in these textual examinations: how are real-life criminals and the spaces they inhabit translated into literary ones? How do crimes in novels reflect or produce social tensions and preoccupations around issues of gender, education, class, and ideology? And, perhaps most importantly, what does it mean to be the “author of a crime”?
Author : Hollis Clayson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351562034
"Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?" The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin's studies of nineteenth-century Parisian culture as the apex of capitalist aesthetics. Thirteen scholars test Benjamin's ideas about the centrality of Paris, formulated in the 1930s, from a variety of methodological perspectives. Many investigate the underpinnings of the French capital's reputation and mythic force, which was based largely upon the city's capacity to put itself on display. Some of the authors reassess the famed centrality of Paris from the vantage point of our globalized twenty-first century by acknowledging its entanglements with South Africa, Turkey, Japan, and the United States. The volume equally studies a broader range of media than Benjamin did himself: from modernist painting and printmaking, photography, and illustration to urban planning. The essays conclude that Paris did in many ways function as the epicenter of modernity's international reach, especially in the years from 1850 to 1900, but did so only as a consequence of the idiosyncratic force of its mythic image. Above all, the essays affirm that the study of late nineteenth-century Paris still requires nimble and innovative approaches commensurate with its legend and global aura.
Author : Douglas Starr
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307279088
Winner of the Gold Dagger Award A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, eluding authorities for years, and murdering twice as many victims as Jack The Ripper. Here, Douglas Starr revisits Vacher's infamous crime wave, interweaving the story of the two men who eventually stopped him—prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, the era's most renowned criminologist. In dramatic detail, Starr shows how Lacassagne and his colleagues were developing forensic science as we know it. Building to a gripping courtroom denouement, The Killer of Little Shepherds is a riveting contribution to the history of criminal justice.
Author : P. Knepper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230251120
We live in the age of international crime but when did it begin? This book examines the period when crime became an international issue (1881-1914), exploring issues such as 'world-shrinking' changes in transportation, communication and commerce, and concerns about alien criminality, white slave trading and anarchist outrages.
Author : Rosemary A. Peters
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739180051
Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the Comtesse de Ségur, and Zola through the lens of crime, Peters highlights bourgeois anxiety about ownership and objects while considering the impact of literature on popular attitudes about crime and its legislation and punishment. A detailed analysis of the role of objects, this work chronicles nineteenth-century changes in legal attitudes, popular mentalities, and individual and social identity, focusing particularly on the resulting transformations in representations of gender, class, and (criminal) subjectivity.
Author : Robin Walz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520921863
In addition to its more well known literary and artistic origins, the French surrealist movement drew inspiration from currents of psychological anxiety and rebellion running through a shadowy side of mass culture, specifically in fantastic popular fiction and sensationalistic journalism. The provocative nature of this insolent mass culture resonated with the intellectual and political preoccupations of the surrealists, as Robin Walz demonstrates in this fascinating study. Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, re-evaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement. Pulp Surrealism presents four case studies, each exploring the out-of the-way and impertinent elements which inspired the surrealists. Walz discusses Louis Aragon's Le paysan de Paris, one of the great surrealist novels of Paris. He goes on to consider the popular series of Fantômes crime novels; the Parisan press coverage of the arrest, trial, and execution of mass-murderer Landru; and the surrealist inquiry "Is Suicide a Solution?", which Walz juxtaposes with reprints of actual suicide faits divers (sensationalist newspaper blurbs). Although surrealist interest in sensationalist popular culture eventually waned, this exploration of mass print culture as one of the cultural milieux from which surrealism emerged ultimately calls into question assumptions about the avant-garde origins of modernism itself.
Author : H. B. Irving
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596057319
[W]e must be content to study in the microcosm of ordinary crime those instincts, selfish, greedy, brutal which, exploited often by bad men in the so-called cause of nations, have wrought such havoc to the happiness of mankind. It is not too much to say that in every man there dwell the seeds of crime; whether they grow or are stifled in their growth by the good that is in us is a chance mysteriously determined. As children of nature we must not be surprised if our instincts are not all that they should be.-from the IntroductionWriting in the sobering aftermath of World War I, Irving's famed 1918 treatise on some of the most infamous murderers of his day is powerfully fueled by the then newfound recognition that the evil men do is not limited to criminals. But this remains, nevertheless, a hugely entertaining narrative of such villains as Charles Pearce, the "outstanding popular figure in nineteenth-century crime," a professional burglar brought down by a crime of passion; Robert Butler, who "desire[d] to acquire things by a short cut, without taking the trouble to work for them honestly"; the gentleman murderer Professor John W. Webster; and H. H. Holmes, who was "completely insensible to all feelings of humanity." Crime buffs and readers of 19th-century history will find a gruesome delight in these Remarkable Criminals.British author HENRY BRODRIBB IRVING (1870-1919) studied law at Oxford University, but turned to writing about legal matters only after a long, acclaimed career as an actor on the British stage. He also wrote Studies of French Criminals of the Nineteenth Century.
Author : Margaret Mary Turlo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Crime and criminals in literature
ISBN : UCR:31210010029567
Author : Jeffrey Metzger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441102157
Nietzsche, Nihilism and the Philosophy of the Future examines Nietzsche's analysis of and response to contemporary nihilism, the sense that nothing has value or meaning. Eleven newly-commissioned essays from an influential team of contributors illustrate the richness and complexity of Nietzsche's thought by bringing together a diverse collection of perspectives on Nietzsche. Nietzsche's engagement with nihilism has been relatively neglected by recent scholarship, despite the fact that Nietzsche himself regarded it as one of the most original and important aspect of his thought. This book addresses that gap in the literature by exploring this central and compelling area of Nietzsche's thought. The essays concentrate on Nietzsche's philosophical analysis of nihilism, the cultural politics of his reaction to nihilism, and the rhetorical dimensions and intricacies of his texts.
Author : Peter Becker,Richard F. Wetzell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521810124
A history of criminology as a history of science and practice.
Author : Bryant T. Ragan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Homosexuality
ISBN : 9780195093049
Research in the Field of Gay and Lesbian Studies has exploded in recent years, but the books published to date focus more on literary than historical issues, and concentrate more on the United States and Great Britain than the rest of the world. Given the role of gays and lesbians in modern French culture, not to mention the importance of the work of French scholars on the history of sexuality, France has been underrepresented in recent publications on both sides of the Atlantic. This exciting collection is the first attempt in any language to explore this subject over three centuries from a variety of perspectives. Based on archival research textual analysis, Homosexuality in Modern France examines the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of "homosexuality" in the modern sense of the world.