Misfits in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy
Anatomies of Difference
As the 19th century drew to a close, France and Italy experienced an explosion of crime, vagrancy, insanity, neurosis and sexual deviance. Misfits in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy examines how the raft of self-appointed experts that subsequently emerged tried to explain this aberrant behavior and the many consequences this had. Susan A. Ashley considers why these different phenomena were understood to be interchangeable versions of the same inborn defects. The book looks at why specialists in newly-minted disciplines in medicine and the social sciences, such as criminology, neurology and sexology, all claimed that biological flaws - some inh…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-350-01340-7
- EAN: 9781350013407
- Produktnummer: 24238775
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'985 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Susan A. Ashley is Professor of History at Colorado College, USA. She is the author of Making Liberalism Work: The Italian Experience, 1860-1914 (2003).
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