| Description |
1 online resource (437 pages) |
| Contents |
Ancestry -- Childhood -- Language -- Sexuality -- Emotion -- Mind -- Society -- Ideas |
| Summary |
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-423) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Causation in literature.
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Murder in literature.
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Causation.
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Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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Causation
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Causation in literature
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Fiction
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Murder in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400826230 |
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1400826233 |
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9780691115238 |
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0691115230 |
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9780691127682 |
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0691127689 |
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