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|a Duncan, Martha Grace
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|a Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons
|h Elektronische Ressource
|b the Unconscious Meanings of Crime and Punishment
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|a New York
|b NYU Press
|c 1996, 1996
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|a 286 pages
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|a Part one: Cradled on the sea: positive images of prison and theories of punishment -- A thousand leagues above: prison as a refuge from the prosaic -- Cradled on the sea: prison as a mother who provides and protects -- To die and become: prison as a matrix of spiritual rebirth -- Flowers are flowers: prison as a place like any other -- Methodological issues -- Positive images of prison and theories of punishment -- Part two: A strange liking: our admiration for criminals -- Reluctant admiration: the forms of our conflict over criminals -- Rationalized admiration: overt delight in camouflaged criminals -- Repressed admiration: loathing as a vicissitude of attraction to criminals -- Part three: In slime and darkness: the metaphor of filth in criminal justice -- Eject him tainted now: the criminal as filth in Western culture -- Projecting an excrementitious mass: the metaphor of filth in the history of Botany Bay -- Stirring the odorous pile: vicissitudes of the metaphor in Britain and the United States -- Conclusion: The romanticization of criminals and the defense against despair
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|a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
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|a Prisons in literature
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|a Criminal psychology
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|a Prison psychology
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|a Criminals in literature
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|b ZDB-39-JOA
|a JSTOR Open Access Books
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|z 9780814721100
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|z 0814721109
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|u https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qg6p4
|x Verlag
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|a An ex-convict struggles with his addictive yearning for prison. A law-abiding citizen broods over his pleasure in violent, illegal acts. A prison warden loses his job because he is so successful in rehabilitating criminals. These are but a few of the intriguing stories Martha Grace Duncan examines in her bold, interdisciplinary book Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons . Duncan writes: "This is a book about paradoxes and mingled yarns - about the bright sides of dark events, the silver linings of sable clouds." She portrays upright citizens who harbor a strange liking for criminal deeds
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