Criminal Papers :: Reading Crime in the French Nineteenth Century.

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 Other its own infrastructure, its own rules and traditions - and its own literature. In the...

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1. Verfasser: Peters, Rosemary A.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
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Zusammenfassung: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 Other 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 an ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (257 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781443838481
1443838489