Crime Stories: Criminalistic Fantasy and the Culture of Crisis in Weimar Germany (Monographs in German History)

Berghahn Books 2009,

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Autore

Herzog Todd

Editori

Berghahn Books 2009

Soggetto

Storia History Histoire

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Sovracoperta

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Come nuovo

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8vo, hardcover 169pp. The Weimar Republic (1918-1933) was a crucial moment not only in German history but also in the history of both crime fiction and criminal science. This study approaches the period from a unique perspective - investigating the most notorious criminals of the time and the publics reaction to their crimes. The author argues that the development of a new type of crime fiction during this period - which turned literary tradition on its head by focusing on the criminal and abandoning faith in the powers of the rational detective - is intricately related to new ways of understanding criminality among professionals in the fields of law, criminology, and police science. Considering Weimar Germany not only as a culture in crisis (the standard view in both popular and scholarly studies), but also as a culture of crisis, the author explores the ways in which crime and crisis became the foundation of the Republics self-definition. An interdisciplinary cultural studies project, this book insightfully combines history, sociology, literary studies, and film